Stuart Harris and myself presented at the 5th Silverlight UK User Group this evening and I thought I’d throw up a bunch of [hopefully] useful links on some of the stuff we covered. For those of you who weren’t lucky enough to be in attendance we were talking about a PoC (Proof of Concept) we did with Microsoft for National Rail Enquires a few months ago at Microsoft UK’s MTC (Microsoft Technology Centre). Stuart has blogged about it before – so head over to his blog for a more rounded err… roundup.
Silverlight & Virtual Earth
- Deep Earth (live demo)
Virtual Earth and Silverlight funkiness – pretty much the bed rock of our implementation (we even get a link back on their CodePlex page!) - MIX 08 Session where Virtual Earth Silverlight SDK was announced
There’s about 5 mins right at the end of this presentation that discusses the up coming official Silverlight Virtual Earth SDK. Short demo, not many details – looks very close to Deep Earth in terms of functionality but a bit more polished. - VIEWS – Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight
A Silverlight managed wrapper for the Virtual Earth Web Control. I discovered this post-PoC, when doing some presentation research so can’t talk with much authority, but if you’re wanting to do Silverlight Virtual Earth stuff might be worth a look. - Quick Graph
Graph data structures and algorithms in .Net which we used to model the Rail Network
Train Related
- NRE Web Services
These public web services are a subset of the private services we used in our State Service. Whilst you don’t get quite the depth of data we used, you can still get hold of a lot of real time arrivals/departures data - certainly enough for any number of train related mash-ups. - Rail Network – Route Plans
Not very techy – but they were useful when we were doing this PoC, so if you start messing with the Web Services yourself you might also find them useful. - Phil’s Web Pages (search for CRS codes via Google)
Again not very techy, but this website from a chap with too much time on his hands was really useful when working with the CRS (station) codes returned by the NRE Web Services.
Thanks for all those who attended – hope you enjoyed it.
If you’d like to come the next (as yet unscheduled) Silverlight UK User Group then get your name down. Space is often quite limited and I know we were massively over subscribed this time round which is great!