SQL Spatial polygon inside out

Question

I am allowing users to draw a polygon in Silverlight by clicking to draw. Then I loop through the points, convert them to longitude and latitude and then save to SQL (in a

Answer 1

If you are tied to RTM version of SqlServer 2008 you can always use sqlspatial tools from codeplex that is freely distributable and from that library just use makevalid method.

If you have time to play with CTP1 of SqlServer Denali you can just pickup new spatial types that can accept objects larger than a hemisphere and that have ReorientObject method to - Reorient Object if needed :)