You Can’t Fire Me, I Don’t Work In This Van

Today we released a framework for interacting with Microsoft’s Virtual Earth Web Services called VirtualEarthKit. I thought I’d put together a little tutorial on using this framework.

To get started you’ll need:
• A Mac running Mac OS 10.5 (this is Objective C 2.0 so Mac OS 10.4 is not supported)
• Phillipe Casgrain’s CoreLocation framework for Mac OS X (included with VirtualEarthKit, if you’re on the iPhone you don’t need this)
• A Virtual Earth user id and password
• VirtualEarthKit

This tutorial expects that you know your way around Cocoa a bit, but most of the VirtualEarthKit classes are analogous to classes in the official Windows Communication Foundation API. Read the rest of this entry »