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Monthly Archives: October 2014

Be smooth: Optimize Bing Maps in multipage Windows Store apps (JavaScript)

Bing Maps is the most widely used map control inside of Windows Store apps. Many simple apps consist of a single page user experience while many other consist of multiple pages. Many developers like to use Bing Maps throughout their application but have found that this results in the map control constantly being loaded/disposed as…

October 24, 2014 in Bing Maps for Windows Store Apps, General Development.

How to add custom auto complete functionality to your map app

More and more developers want to add auto complete to their map applications, and for good reason. It’s convenient for users and can help make your map application a user-friendly delight. In this blog post I will show you how to use Bing Spatial Data Services to create custom auto complete functionality in your next…

October 10, 2014 in Bing Maps Basics, General Development.

Multiple Measurement Scale Bar in WPF

I recently had some one ask me how to create a custom scale bar in the Bing Maps WPF control. The scale bars in the WPF control today let you set the unit of measurement to imperial or metric which is great if you only want one unit of measurement. However, if you are used…

October 9, 2014 in Bing Maps Basics, Bing Maps WPF.

Correctly anchoring pushpins to the map

I regularly come across developers who run into issue that when they zoom the map in and out the pushpin appears to drift to and from the coordinate in which is meant to represent. The reason for this is that most of the time the information for how to offset the pushpin relative to the…

October 2, 2014 in Bing Maps Basics, General Development.

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