In addition to being a sponsor, Inspector IT’s very own Antonio Chagoury is in the speaker line-up, giving a presentation under the “Mobile Development” track. If you are interested in this topic then be sure to attend and hit Antonio up with any questions you might have.

What is “Day of DotNetNuke”?

Day of DotNetNuke® is a free event serving those who are interested in learning about the world’s largest .NET based open source framework, DotNetNuke®.

This event attracts many industry experts who are willing to share knowledge and experience about DotNetNuke® and it creates in-person networking opportunity for community members around the world.

The St. Louis and Chicago DotNetNuke® User Groups have teamed up and are proud to announce the second Day of DotNetNuke® in the U.S and the first in the Midwest region.

About Antonio’s Session

Smartphone-enable your DotNetNuke Apps with jQTouch & jQuery

So you built a great DotNetNuke Module, but now you want to make its data and functionality available to mobile users with a smart-phone device such as an iPhone, Android or Blackberry.

Well, you’re in luck, because in this session Antonio will show you how easy it is to build a mobile web app that consumes REST web services with a little client side scripting, the jQTouch framework and jQuery.

Related articles and resources:

• Chicago Day of DNN website
• Chicago Day of DNN Speakers
• Chicago Day of DNN Sessions
• Speaking at Chicago Day of DotNetNuke
• Nik Kalyani to Deliver Keynote Address at Day Of DotNetNuke Chicago

We are looking forward to meet you in Chicago next month.

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This highly interactive product is specifically designed for non-profit organizations that manage their memberships using TMA Resources’ Association Management System (AMS), Personify.

The mobile conference application was initially commissioned by one of the nation’s largest non-profit associations and is now deployed and providing its constituents with mobile access to their upcoming events.

The application gives smart phone users an easy and convenient way to view conference information, particularly before they arrive at the conference and have access to the printed on-site program. 
Its main features include:

• The displays professional programs
• The displays special events
• The displays competitions
• Search enabled exhibitor listings
• Area maps, with custom locations*
• Twitter feeds specific to the selected conference*
• and more…

Users of the mobile application can quickly view the program by upcoming sessions, session listing by day, or by track. The application also provides functionality that promotes social networking through twitter feeds and links to the conference’s Facebook group page*. The exhibitors “search by booth” or “by exhibitor” feature enables users to quickly identify the location of exhibitors’ information including their booths on a map of the exhibit hall.

Non-Profit organizations that operate multiple conferences each year in support of its mission and members can, at last, easily enable mobile access to an interactive view of each conference while on the go.  The application currently supports all smart phone devices such as:

• iPhone
• Android
• BlackBerry
• and any other rich-browser based device **

The  Mobile conference application comes in an easy-to-install module compatible with the Personify eBusiness application framework (or DotNetNuke + Personify).

A photo slideshow of the application can be viewed here.

For more information and/or a live demonstration please contact us today.

* Requires Personify customizations
** Some features are disabled based on supported devices

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On Wednesday, June 16th 2010 the Capital DotNetNuke User Group will be hosting the second official DotNetNuke Hackathon.

The previous Hackathon held in Orlando last month focused on the DotNetNuke MVP design pattern. This month’s Hackathon in Washington, DC, will focus on developing compelling visual user interfaces and user experiences. The theme is appropriately labeled as "Visual DotNetNuke."

Inspector IT principals and staff will be at the event to meet and greet the great folks of the local DotNetNuke community. Inspector IT is also excited to be the meeting sponsor providing food and beverages.

What is a Hackaton?

Hackathons are developer events with a goal of increasing developer knowledge on a specific technology aspect in a casual, collaborative environment. They are also designed to encourage participation by people who are not familiar with the technology, basically providing them with an immersive quick start.
Hackathon Events are:

• built around a single programming concept (for example: DotNetNuke MVP Pattern)
• encourage participation locally (at event site) and remotely
• broadcast online
• provide materials and dev environment setup guidelines ahead of time
• allow anybody to participate
• are peer-judged by the Hackathon participants
• have one or more winners who earn the title "Hackmaster"
• have great prizes for winners and runners up
• require all submissions to be Open Source with MIT license

Visual DotNetNuke Hackathon

The first official DotNetNuke Hackathon was held in Orlando last month and it focused on building DotNetNuke module using the  MVP design pattern.

Next week, on June 16th, we have a fantastic Hackathon planned, and this time, the theme is "Visual DotNetNuke."

The "Visual DotNetNuke" Hackathon focuses on building  modules for DotNetNuke. The launchpad for the event will be the montly meeting of the Capital DotNetNuke Users Group in the Washington, DC metro area.

Developers have an abundance of resources available to help them better understand DotNetNuke module development. Resources such as blogs, videos and books go into great detail on module architecture, the data layer and interacting with the DotNetNuke Core API. However, when it comes to developing DotNetNuke modules with rich, engaging and contemporary user interfaces, the resources are few and far between.

The "Visual DotNetNuke" Hackathon aims to give developers the knowledge and tools to create great-looking DotNetNuke modules that engage users and create a delightful user experience.

You can learn more about this upcoming Hackathon on the official website.

The speakers at this event are Nik Kalyani, Founder and CEO of HyperCrunch and Joe Brinkman, Co-founder and Technical Fellow of DotNetNuke Corporation.

For more information please visit the Capital DotNetNuke User Group (C-DUG) website.

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Antonio’s leadership and extraordinary contributions to the IT community, as well as his passion for technology and commitment to innovation and technical expertise is well known to our clients and his colleagues.

“MVPs are technology’s best and brightest, and we are honored to welcome Antonio as one of them.” – Rich Kaplan, Corporate Vice President, Customer and Partner Advocacy, Microsoft Corporation.

Inspector IT congratulates Antonio on this well-deserved award. We wish all our customers and partners a happy new year and look forward to continuing Antonio’s tradition of professional excellence and community leadership through 2010.

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“ZoomSafer is an important milestone for today’s technology in that it recognizes the need for convenience and constant connectivity that we have come to expect while taking into account our safety needs and of others.  As a father, I not only feel safer knowing other drivers aren’t distracted, I also want my kids to know that technology can enhance our lives by keeping us safe while on the road.  As an IT professional, working with the ZoomSafer has been outstanding because the innovators behind this idea are among the top professionals in this sector and the team’s commitment to an outstanding productive is evident,” says Inspector IT CEO Antonio Chagoury.

About ZoomSafer

ZoomSafer is software and services for mobile phones to prevent distracted driving. It’s simple to download and easy to install.
ZoomSafer uses GPS in combination with client software installed on your phone to determine when you’re moving faster than 10 mph. When driving, we activate our safe driving services to minimize distractions and keep you focused on the road.

Passenger in a moving vehicle?  No problem.  Simply turn it off. Watch the video to see a complete demonstration.

ZoomSafer will work on a variety of smartphone platforms starting with RIM Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Google Android.

Go here to learn more about our innovative safe driving solutions.

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Inspector IT’s DNN Universal Tag Cloud™ makes your data work harder for you by tapping into your existing DotNetNuke search index to generate highly customizable semantic tag clouds. Tag Clouds are a great way to provide your web users with stylish Web 2.0 navigation components and are highly efficient when it comes to enhancing your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) efforts.
With Inspector IT’s DNN Universal Tag Cloud™ you can create multiple tag clouds, each customized to semantically depict your content listed alphabetically or by importance. With DNN Universal Tag Cloud™, creating and customizing content tag clouds that enable your users to navigate to the right collection of information has never been easier, setup and configuration is snap!

DNN Universal Tag Cloud has been released and is available on Snowcovered and at the DotNetNuke Marketplace.

A few product reviews have already been sighted in the blogosphere; the response thus far is extremely positive. we look forward to improve on the product and publish an aggressive road map that would ensure multiple releases scheduled through the end of 2009, says Inspector IT CEO Antonio Chagoury

A few  quotes from the previously mentioned blog sightings reveal that the functionality exposed by the DNN Universal Tag Cloud has been missing from the DotNetNuke ecosystem and is a welcome addition to Inspector IT’s collection of modules:

A missing “Web 2.0″ element from DotNetNuke is the now-ubiquitous Tag Cloud. Their new Universal Tag Cloud module does most everything you’d expect neatly and easily, says Mamlin of Eguana Solutions.

If you need a tag cloud that has only positive impact on a DNN site, and uses existing technology, this module is definitely the standard one to use, and sets the bar very high.  I can already see all kinds of uses for this module on various types of sites, says Will Strohl of RezHub.com.

Until DNN core blog module adds this in this is a good alternative to rolling your own, which can be a pain. The best part is you can make clouds for any modules that tie into the search provider. So if you are using Ventrian’s articles module you could now easily make a tag cloud for all your articles using this module. Lots of possibilities and lots of ways to use it, says Dylan Barber of CodeMyPantsOff.com

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Vienna, Virginia – May 27, 2009 – Inspector IT designs, develops and hosts ZoomSafer.com, a Reston, Virginia company that builds mobile solutions to prevent distracted driving. Press releases about the “stealthy website launch” have been sighted across most common PR websites:

• http://www.pr.com/press-release/155393
• http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200905/1243578009.html
• http://www.zoomsafer.com/news-events/articletype/articleview/articleid/90/zoomsafer-unveils-innovative-solution-to-prevent-distracted-driving.aspx

ZoomSafer is software for mobile phones that automatically detects when you’re driving and reminds you to focus on the road. Features include:

• Custom safety reminders from family and friends
• Management of inbound calls, emails, and texts
• Voice activated messaging for text and email
• Auto updates to friends, family, co-workers, and social networks

The product is currently under development with a beta release planned for August 2009.

“Inspector IT is proud to have played the important role of designing ZoomSafer’s web presence, deploying and hosting it, as well as provided consulting services and guidelines for its search engine optimization strategy (SEO). We look forward to supporting ZoomSafer deliver the world’s first mobile “mash-up” to prevent distracted driving.” said Antonio Chagoury, CEO and Chief Software Architect of Inspector IT.

ZoomSafer hosts 2 blogs where they frequently educate people on the dangers of driving distracted, BerryFocused.com and IDriveFocused.com.

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• Reach a broad audience with real-time news and information
• Disseminate specific messages to targeted groups with lightening speed
• Elicit feedback and spark dialogue around issues and causes
• Generate energy and demonstrate leadership in a cause
• Make a message personal and fun for every visitor

Offering Personify Integration, Twitter integration, trackbacks and pingback, and search-engine friendly URLs, Blog for Personify brings the power of social media and Web 2.0 to every association in a user-friendly format.  As with all Inspector IT products, Blog for Personify comes with the individualized support clients need and expect in today’s non-profit sector.

In becoming a TMA Resources’ Solution Partner, Inspector IT is proud to provide applications that integrate with Personify through Web service APIs.  Inspector IT is pleased to work with TMA Resources and its clients to develop products that offer out-of-the-box integration with Personify.   Inspector IT is confident this enhanced partnership with TMA Resources will result in new technologies to grow and connect communities, providing clients more of the high quality, efficient and cost-effective solutions they expect for their networking needs.

For more information on Blog for Personify contact info@inspectorit.com or come visit us at the TAUG 2009 Conference.

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At this year’s TAUG, Inspector IT will showcase its new Blog for Personify integrated solution for Personify e-Business.  With Blog for Personify, clients have instant access to a seamlessly integrated product that harnesses the power of social media to reach a targeted audience with up-to-the-minute news, information and resources.  Blog for Personify also lets clients elicit feedback and stimulates real time conversations.   Blog for Personify offers Personify integration, Twitter integration, full RSS syndication, MS Word and Windows Live Writer, as well search engine friendly URLs and more.  As with all Inspector IT solutions, Blog for Personify is fully customizable and supported by a team that can offer you superb support services and personal attention to individual clients’ business needs and customers’ expectations.

In addition to offering hands-on demonstrations of the new Blog for Personify, Inspector IT CEO and Chief Software Architect Antonio Chagoury will attend TAUG to work with clients and other TMA partners to share best practices, discuss emerging trends in the non-profit sector, and collaborate on new tools to help associations get the most out of their IT solutions.

Resources: TAUG 2009 Website.

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Written by the best programmers in the their fields, Wrox Blox are short informational pieces and code that help other programmers get up-to-speed and keep up-to-date.  Wrox Press and its official website, Wrox.com, is a part of the John Wiley & Sons, Inc. publishing house, a leading publisher of scientific and technical information.  As a Programmer to Programmer publisher, Wrox Press publications are written by programmers for programmers, and the Wrox brand means authoritative solutions to real-world programming problems.

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“Inspector IT knows how important customer satisfaction is to TMA Resources, and as a company built on identifying solutions targeted to the individual goals of each client, we know our partnership with TMA will be a fruitful one, for our companies and for our customers. We are always happy to partner with industry leaders like TMA since we know our work together will result in groundbreaking innovations for our community,” said Antonio Chagoury, CEO and Chief Software Architect of Inspector IT.

Inspector IT will be collaborating with TMA Resources by primarily providing the following services:

• Personify eBusiness Systems Integration Support
• DotNetNuke Training for:
  • Webmaster Administration
  • IT Administration and Optimization
  • Custom Development
  • Custom Skinning

• DotNetNuke Custom Development and Core Extension
• DotNetNuke Custom Skinning
• DotNetNuke Information Architecture and Strategy
• DotNetNuke Maintenance and Support

As today’s leader in member-centric software and the company of choice for professional societies with budgets of $10 million or more, TMA Resources, Inc. specializes in delivering efficient, effective solutions for our customers’ networking needs while moving the entire industry forward. TMA Resources staff are experts in Association Management Software. For more than a decade, they have served the most dynamic and complex membership organizations in the world.

Inspector IT specializes in comprehensive software solutions on the Microsoft® .NET Framework and DotNetNuke (DNN) targeted to the specific needs of individual customers. Its extensive experience in the software and internet industry enables it to deliver products that address the full scope of the customer’s strategic objectives. Inspector IT’s product development expertise ranges from large scale e-commerce applications, social networking and mash-ups components to social commerce, enterprise content management and ERP solutions. Inspector IT’s principals and staff are Microsoft MVPs and active contributors and advocates of Open Source Software. The Inspector IT team is known for its leadership in the DotNetNuke (DNN) community. As active CORE Team members and Team Leads, Inspector IT developers contributes daily to DotNetNuke’s (DNN) architecture and core code which makes Inspector IT the obvious choice when it comes to delivering enterprise solutions and support on the platform.

Technorati Tags: Inspector IT,TMA Resources,Partnership,DotNetNuke,DNN,Press Release

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DotNetNuke OpenForce ‘08 is the premier North American DotNetNuke event in 2008. Co-located with other top Microsoft technology-focused conferences at DevConnections, this is a can’t-miss conference for serious DotNetNuke developers, users, administrators, designers and vendors.  Conference highlights include 20 speakers, 22 in-depth sessions, panel discussions, networking receptions, an exciting expo hall.

As an added bonus, OpenForce ‘08 attendees can also attend sessions at any other DevConnections conference in progress at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, the OpenForce ‘08 conference location. These conferences include: Asp.net Connections, SQL Server Connections, Visual Studio.net Connections, and SharePoint Connections. 
Information and schedules on Antonio Chagoury’s talk can be found on theOpenForce web site, as well asDevConnections‘. Here an excerpt:

Done in 60 minutes: Build a Custom Membership Provider

The Provider Model is a design pattern introduced in .net to provide a simple way to extend API functionality.  DotNetNuke uses this architecture to allow some of its core functionality to be replaced without modifying core code.  In this session Antonio Chagoury will give you a high-level overview of the core Membership Provider (ASPNet Membership) and demonstrate how to build and configure your own custom provider.

Inspector IT would like to hear from you and meet you. If you will be attending OpenForce this year, Antonio will be happy to talk to you and discuss the great potentials of DotNetNuke, and how to put it to good use in your enterprise.

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The free licenses will be raffled off to OpenForce ‘08 attendees during an evening event (To be announced). 3 product license will be raffled off for DNN Site Map and 3 other for DNN Dock Menu.

Are you coming to OpenForce ‘08? If so, you may be one of the lucky 6 to win one of the two best selling modules.

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Inspector IT’s customers have been upgraded  at 12:00am EST from version 4.6.0. The compelling list of enhancements, bug fixes, and security vulnerability fixes were announced on the day of its release.

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Inspector IT, Inc. is announcing the official End of Life for the first and most powerful mapping module for DotNetNuke™, DNN Virtual Earth, based on Microsoft’s® Virtual Earh platform.

The End of Life for DNN Virtual Earth will be in effect as of August 1st, 2008. Due to the popularity of the module, Inspector IT, Inc. will provide the module for download free fo charge and seize the sale of the product (as well as the source variant) in all marketplaces. Furthermore, Inspector IT, Inc. will not be liable for ongoing support and/or maintanance, unless under an official company SLA agreement. The product’s support forum will remain available on a read-only basis for those wishing to consult reference support solutions.

Inspector IT, Inc. will provide professional services to organization wishing to implement mapping solutions. For more information, please contact our sales desk using the contact form on our website.

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Following the prize award, Antonio further contributed to the viral growth of the Community-Credit.com website by developing an open source smart client application that connects via web services to the community-credit website in an effort to provide and easier way for community leaders and contributors to submit their accomplishments for credit retribution.

The application was named "Community-Credit Studio" and has been posted on CodePlex and is accessible via the following URL: http://www.codeplex.com/ccstudio.com.

Antonio has also blogged about this effort here: http://www.cto20.com/post/Community-Credit-Studio-Posted-on-CodePlex.aspx

If you would like to contribute to the further development on the tool, please feel free to drop us a line using the contact form on our website.

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The latest version is available for purchase or download at Snowcovered:

• Source Code Version
• PA Only Version (Install)

Change Log for 01.60.00
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1. Fixed Point list window opened in Firefox even if setting was turned off.
2. Modified "cancel" link in Manage Point List page to "Return to Main View"
3. Removed Inspector IT copyright notice below the map
4. Minor HTML fixes in the VirtualEarth.ascx
5. Clean up of Module.css
6. Fixed issues found in Point List window that sometimes caused the window not to load with the proper design theme.
7. Fixed CSS issue that caused the DNN skin to reset its position to top-left:0 in Firefox

Thank you for support!

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Of course the drawback with the afore mentioned controls is that they do not come equipped with an integrated paging control as the datagrid does, but the folks at DotNetNuke did a fine job at remedying the situation: they built a re-usable Paging Control. If you are a DotNetNuke module developer, you should definitely consider using it instead of building your own. This is exactly what I did, and I am now sharing my experience since finding these "nuggets" of useful built-in functions and controls within DotNetNuke is more like "treasure hunting"!

First and foremost, I have to note that the DotNetNuke paging control does not manage the data, in fact it does not even bind to a source. All that the DotNetNuke Paging Control does is generate a paging interface, and builds the paging links based on some key data that you feed into it at run time. The information you provide control at runtime is as follows:

• TotalRecords
  Once you have filled your collection object, get its row count and feed it to this property of the control
• PageSize
  Define the size of each page (i.e. the number of records you wish to display on each page)
• CurrentPage
  Get the current page index and feed it into this property (i.e. Once the pager initiates the paging, you can get the pageindex from the querystring called CurrentPage)
• Querystring
  If your module needs its own custom querystring parameters, feed them into this property, the paging links will append them for you so that your data continues to load normally)

The following is a code example for filling the the properties mentioned above:

ctlPagingControl.TotalRecords = TotalRecords
ctlPagingControl.PageSize = PageSize
ctlPagingControl.CurrentPage = PageIndex

The following is a screen shot of the generated Paging Control:

Putting it all together

Let’s start by adding the control to your UI page. First we must register the WebControl assembly (DotNetNuke.UI.WebControls) at the top of your page, and then add the control to a location of the page of your choice. The code example below assumes you are adding this paging control below your datalist/repeater:

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" Namespace="DotNetNuke.UI.WebControls" Assembly="DotNetNuke" %>
<asp:Datalist ID="Datalist1" runat="server"></asp:Datalist>
<dnn:PagingControl id="PagingControl1" runat="server"></dnn:PagingControl>

The next (and last) thing to do is stitch the control to your data source.

First let me explain that there are two ways (that I know of) you can page your data:

1. Via Stored Procedure or Data Access:
   
   This is the most labor intensive, but will give you better performance. Basically you page the data in the stored procedure itself by passing the PageIndex and the PageSize into it so that it return and fills your collection with just the rows that you need.
2. Via Use the PagedDataSource Class

   This class enables you to page the entire source with much less code, however, all the rows are fetched at each page request, regardless of which page you are on (Unless you do some additional data caching in your asp.net code, in which case you are ok).

   For simplicity’s sake, the example I provide below implements this methodology.

Private Sub BindDatalist()
Dim PageSize = 20 'Display 20 items per page
'Get the currentpage index from the url parameter
If Request.QueryString("currentpage") IsNot Nothing Then
_CurrentPage = Request.QueryString("currentpage").ToString
Else
_CurrentPage = 1
End If
'Call you data layer and get the data you need to bind to the datalist
Dim objDataController As New YouDataController
Dim objCollection As List(Of YourObject) = objDataController.GetData()
'Fill the PagedDataSource object's datasource property with your collection
Dim objPagedDataSource As New PagedDataSource
objPagedDataSource.DataSource = objCollection
If Me.PageSize > 0 Then
objPagedDataSource.PageSize = PageSize
objPagedDataSource.CurrentPageIndex = _CurrentPage - 1
objPagedDataSource.AllowPaging = True
End If
'Bind the datalist
dlWhoIsOnline.DataSource = objPagedDataSource
dlWhoIsOnline.DataBind()
'Show/hide the pager based on on the number of rows fetched vs pagesize
If PageSize = 0 OrElse objDataController.Count <= PageSize Then
ctlPagingControlBottom.Visible = False
Else
ctlPagingControlBottom.Visible = True
With ctlPagingControlBottom
.TotalRecords = objDataController.Count
.PageSize = PageSize
.CurrentPage = _CurrentPage
.TabID = TabId
End With
End If
End Sub

You should now be able to run your project and test the paging control.

Feel free to post your comments below if you need additional information.

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Additionally, we improved the manageability of the module by separating the Map Points Management interface from the Map’s Settings. The UI is much less cluttered as a result of this change.

I could go on writing pages explaining all the changes, so instead, here is a bullet list of the changes and fixes in this new version: (Make sure you check out the demo too!)

• Added GeoRSS support
• Added a point attribute to allow you to load the location’s weather conditions in the balloon tip by default
• Added settings to allow you to manipulate the balloon tip including, background color, size, border, border color & style
• List of points is now a floating window, which you can move, close, minimize and restore
• Fixed some minor FireFox rendering issues
• Fixed issue when an apostrophy is entered in both the title and description of each point
• Much more!

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The DNN SiteMap module was updated on Snowcovered and a patch notification has been sent to all customers who have purchased the module since January 1st, 2007.

The Site Map on this website has been updated to version 3.8 and you can preview the change by following this link or by clicking on the Site Map menu button above.

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Here you will find news and information on events and applications surrounding the next generation web.

So go ahead, visit www.cto20.com and make sure to keep visiting to read on news, events and finds on everything 2.0.

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With version 4.0 of the map control, you can now display 3D maps on your Web site. Existing 2D maps will continue to work as they do in version 3 of the control, but now users can switch to 3D mode and view maps in an all-new way.
Note that Version 4.0 of the map control also includes the latest updates to the version 3.2 map control.

Existing customers will receive this update via the Snowcovered Patches section free of charge.

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