Chris Pendleton at Microsoft, has announced that the Virtual Earth ASP .NET Control is being dropped. This was officially in CTP (Community Technology Preview) status, and as a part of the Live Frameworks CTP which is also being retired.

The explanation is that this was really only a wrapper. The AJAX JavaScript and Silverlight controls should be used instead.

There are also two alternatives. Chris Pietschmann at Simplovation sells a Bing Maps ASP .Net Control (Web.Maps.VE v2.0). A free trial is also available for download.

Secondly, John O'Brien at Soul Solutions wrote the original VE ASP .NET control for Microsoft. John plans to open source the code, and publish it at CodePlex.

I've met both Chris and John in person - they're great guys and Bing Maps experts!

Chris Pendleton's announcement can be found here.

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