<p>I have a mapping application that needs to draw a path, and then display icons on top of the path. I can't find a way to control the order of virtual earth layers, other than the order in which they are added. </p>

<p>Does anyone know how to change the z index of Virtual Earth shape layers, or force a layer to the front?</p>

Wikipedia has great write-ups comparing both
Java/C# generics
and
Java generics/C++
templates. The
main article on Generics
seems a bit cluttered but it does have some good info in it.