VirtualEarth: determine min/max visible latitude/longitude

Is there an easy way to determine the maximum and minimum visible latitude and longitude in a VirtualEarth map? Given that it's not a flat surface (VE uses Mercator projection it looks like) I can see the math getting fairly complicated, I figured somebody may know of a snippet to accomplish this.

From stackoverflow

• Using the Virtual Earth Interactive SDK, you can see how to convert a pixel point to a LatLong object:

  function GetMap()
  {
    map = new VEMap('myMap');
    map.LoadMap();
  }
  
  function DoPixelToLL(x, y)
  {
    var ll = map.PixelToLatLong(new VEPixel(x, y)).toString()
    alert("The latitude,longitude of the pixel at (" + x + "," + y + ") is: " + ll)
  }
  

  Take a further look here: http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/ in the menu go to: Get map info --> Convert pixel to LatLong

  To get the Max/Min visible LatLong's, you could call the DoPixelToLL method for each corner of the map.

  Serguei : Looking at the documentation in PixelToLatLong, looks like GetMapView is what I need: To obtain the bounding area of a map in 3D mode, call the VEMap.GetMapView Method.

• Found it! VEMap.GetMapView() returns the bounding rectangle, even works for 3D mode as well (where the boundary is not even a rectangle).

  var view = map.GetMapView();
  
  latMin = view.BottomRightLatLong.Latitude;
  lonMin = view.TopLeftLatLong.Longitude;
  latMax = view.TopLeftLatLong.Latitude;
  lonMax = view.BottomRightLatLong.Longitude;