Chandu Thota announces that his new book, Programming MapPoint in .NET, which covers APIs for MapPoint 2004, MapPoint Web Service, Microsoft Location Server and Virtual Earth, is now available. A sample chapter is available via O’Reilly’s online catalogue, and there’s a support site for the book as well. James Fee is enthusiastic. As for me, I work on the Mac side of the fence and I’m certainly no programmer (least of all using C# or .NET), so I’m fairly sure that this book would do nothing but bewilder me. Still, it looks like a significant book for map programmers.

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