The Bing Maps WPF control is a fairly new map control which had it’s first version released in January of this year. As with anything that’s new there is bound to be a couple issues that need working out. On issue that has been mentioned on the Bing Maps forums a number of time has…
I use Visual studios on almost a daily basis and I love being able to set a breakpoint and dive through the hierarchy of an object and see the property name and values. One thing I’ve struggled with in the past was being able to generate a similar experience for viewing a generic object structure…
Update: I have since had additional information on this added to the MSDN documentation. There are also more up to date data contracts in the documentation. Bing Maps has two main services for geocoding and routing on the fly. These are the Bing Maps SOAP and Bing Maps REST services. The SOAP services were released…
In the past using Bing Maps inside a WinForm required using a web browser control and creating a interlope between managed code and JavaScript. It was painful but worked. When the Silverlight control came out it was possible to create an out of browser Silverlight application to create desktop Bing Maps applications, however this meant…
That’s right, there is a Bing Maps WPF control available now. This was just recently announced . This control is currently in beta but already a lot of buzz is floating around about it. The current control is pretty basic in terms of functionality but this was by design. There is no default pushpin style…
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