Keith Kinnan's Blog : Bing Map Control API

Bing Maps Silverlight Control – Streetside(TM) and Enhanced Birdseye Beta Now Available!

keithkin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:11:00 GMT

Last week we announced the new Bing Maps Beta website which showcased the Bing Maps Silverlight Control along with the power of Silverlight with Streetside (TM) and Enhanced Birdseye. Today we are announcing the Bing Maps Silverlight Control Extended Modes Beta so you can now use the new Streetside (TM) and Enhanced Birdseye modes in your applications!

Here are some quick screenshots and sample applications:

Bing Maps Silverlight Control Enhanced Birdseye Sample

Bing Maps Silverlight Control Streetside Sample

Here are the steps to get started:

1. Sign up for a free developer account at the Bing Maps Portal and get a Bing Maps Key for your application development

2. Download the Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0.1 (which is file version1.0.12.300). (Note: this is an update to the previous 1.0 version of the Bing Maps Silverlight Control and is backwards compatible with 1.0).

3. Download the Bing Maps Silverlight Control Extended Modes Beta from the Connect portal. This contains the Beta for Streetside and Enhanced Birdseye map modes.

For more information see Chris Pendleton’s blog post Adding Streetside and Enhanced Birdseye to your Applications

Have fun!

Bing Maps Silverlight Control PDC09 Session Video

keithkin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:09:34 GMT

If you missed the Bing Maps Silverlight Control session at PDC09: CL36: Deep Dive on Bing Maps Silverlight Control, you can see the video online here:

The code samples are all listed here:

Bing Maps Silverlight Control PDC09 Code Samples

Bing Maps Silverlight Control Code Samples Available from PDC09

keithkin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45:10 GMT

Thanks to everyone who attended my session CL36: Deep Dive on Bing Maps Silverlight Control at PDC09! Hope you had a good time.

Here is a link to the code samples from the session:

Download BingMapsSilverlightSamplesPDC09.zip

To use the code samples locally:

Download and install the Bing Maps Silverlight Control
Download and Unzip the BingMapsSilverlightSamplesPDC09.zip file
Update the references to point to the MapControl DLLs (Microsoft.Maps.MapControl.dll and Microsoft.Maps.MapControl.Common.dll) for each of the csproj files
Go to the Bing Maps Account Center and sign up for a Bing Maps Key
Search for “Insert Credentials Here” in the project and replace it with your Bing Maps Key. (They are all in the App.xaml files)

Have fun!

Bing Maps @ PDC Day 2 and 3

keithkin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:49:33 GMT

Thanks to everyone yesterday for stopping by the Bing Maps booth and meeting with us at the Ask the Experts session and the PDC Underground. We enjoyed meeting with you and hearing your feedback and talking about Bing Maps!

Today, you can see Chris Pendleton’s Chalk Talk on Bing Maps APIs at 10 AM in the Web Pavillion by the booth. Also, I will be presenting a session: CL36: Deep Dive on Bing Maps Silverlight Control today at 12:45 PM in 515A.

The Bing Maps booth and our “Hands On Lab: Develop Visually Engaging Applications with Bing Maps Silverlight Control” are also going on in the Web Pavillion today!

Hope to see you!

Bing Maps at PDC - Day 1

keithkin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:14:00 GMT

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Bing Maps booth yesterday at PDC09! We had a great time meeting with you. Also, thanks to those who attended the Chalk Talk on Deep Dive on Bing Maps Silverlight Control yesterday! If you missed it, don’t worry, you can attend the session CL36: Deep Dive on Bing Maps Silverlight Control on Thursday @12:45 PM in 515A.

Come see us today at the Bing Maps Booth in the Web Pavillion. You can also do the “Hands On Lab:Develop Visually Engaging Applications with Bing Maps Silverlight Control” in the Web Platform Hands On Lab Area.

Also, don’t forget about the Ask The Experts session tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 PM! See you there!

Learn about Bing Maps at PDC09!

keithkin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:27:00 GMT

Come learn about the Bing Maps platform at PDC09 next week in LA! Here’s a schedule of events where you can meet Bing Maps team members and learn about developing with the Bing Maps platform!

We have a couple of chalk talks and sessions where you can learn information. Here are the dates and times:

Tuesday 11/17

1 PM – 2 PM

Chalk Talk: “Deep Dive on Bing Maps Silverlight Control”
Keith Kinnan

Wednesday 11/18

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

“Ask the Experts“
Keith Kinnan and Chris Pendleton

Thursday 11/19

10 AM – 11 AM	Chalk Talk: “Bing Maps APIs” Chris Pendleton
12:45 PM – 1:30 PM	Session CL36: “Deep Dive on Bing Maps Silverlight Control” in 515A Keith Kinnan

All week at PDC Tuesday 11/17 - Thursday 11/19 you can stop by the Bing Maps Booth in the Web Pavillion and meet team members and get information.

You can also work on the Hands On Lab:Develop Visually Engaging Applications with Bing Maps Silverlight Control” in the Web Pavillion Hands on Lab Area.

Hope to see you there!

Bing Maps Silverlight Control Available!

keithkin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:38:37 GMT

Today we announced some exciting updates to the Bing Maps Platform! We are excited to announce the launch of the Bing Maps Silverlight Control along with other Bing Maps platform enhancements to improve performance and ease of use.

The Bing Maps Silverlight Control leverages the power of Silverlight to provide a powerful and rich platform for building mapping and location-based applications. I want to thank you for all the great feedback from the Silverlight map control CTP release last March. We were able to incorporate a lot of your feedback into the control, and today it is version 1.0 and is production ready!

We are also rolling out performance improvements across the platform with improvements to our distributed data center infrastructure. We are also making it easier to get started with the Bing Maps platform with the new Bing Maps Account Center where you can create an account and use a simple key to access the Bing Maps Silverlight and AJAX Controls and Web Services. With the key you can try out the Bing Maps Platform for free and it is free to use for non profit, education, and small websites.

Here is a list of some of the features in the Bing Maps Silverlight Control v1.0:

Silverlight 3 including support for Out of Browser
Road and Aerial Map Modes with and without Labels featuring Deep Zoom with the Silverlight MultiScaleImage control
Position Silverlight UIElements on the Map including images, video, pushpins, polylines, and polygons with a few lines of XAML
Data Binding with the MapItemsControl
Use Bing Maps Web Services with the control for advanced Search, Geocoding, and Routing functionality
World Wrap / infinite pan across the dateline
Design-time integration with Expression Blend
Scripting interface for coding with JavaScript
Embed Silverlight (and AJAX) Maps with a single URL in a web page
Online Interactive SDK with demos and sample code showing how to use the control

Here are some useful links to try out the new Bing Maps Silverlight Control:

Try it out today and let us know what you think!

Bing Maps

keithkin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:47:00 GMT

Microsoft Virtual Earth is now officially known as “Bing Maps”. You can see the Bing logo on the Bing Maps website (formerly known as Live Search Maps) and on the Bing Maps Interactive SDK . You can see the SDKs for the Bing Maps Web Services and the Bing Map Control 6.2. The Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP will remain “Virtual Earth” for now since it is a CTP, but will be part of the Bing Maps platform when the next release is available.

For more details on the change from Virtual Earth to Bing Maps, check out this blog post from Chris Pendleton on Bing Maps which has a nice video discussing the new name and check out Bing!.

Bing Maps Interactive SDK

Bing Maps

(Note: This post is also available on the Bing Maps Platform Team Blog)