The maps in WP8 did not support adding an opacity to a tile layer. The only way around this was to set the opacity in your tiles or to use a proxy service and change the opacity of the tiles on the fly. With WP8.1 a new map API was released which is available through…
Tile layers are a great way to visualize a lot of data on a map and still have good performance. Depending on the type of data you are displaying as a tile layer, you may find that it is localized to a small part of the world. If this is the case then you will…
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…
In a recent blog post, you saw how to use JavaScript and CSS3 to create custom animations. Now you’ll see how to create the same custom animations for a Windows Store app using .NET. You are in luck, as all of these animations can be used with the Bing Maps WPF control as well with…
Do you find that you spend more time digging through documentation trying to figure out what properties do rather than spending time building great apps? IntelliSense can help. A few weeks ago, someone asked me if there was any IntelliSense support for Bing Maps. I vaguely remembered there being an open source project that added…
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