Creating silverlight microsoft bing maps with editable pushpins in. The bing maps silverlight control adds stunning aesthetic, unmatched performance and an innovative. However you can also place any silverlight graphic on the map in a way that is almost as easy as the specially supplied objects. Q1 beta will contain the pushpin class in the telerik. Download bing maps silverlight control sdk from official. Bing maps is a web mapping service provided as a part of microsofts bing suite of search. Createstandardpushpin gives my entity the look and feel of the standard bing maps pushpins. Plotting pushpins on the bing maps silverlight control is really simple when using the pushpin control that comes with the control. Background i have been interested in using bing maps sdk since the release of the beta and got very much involved right after build conference 20. Jan 19, 2010 bing maps goes silverlight frederic lardinois 19 jan 2010 web microsoft just announced that it is taking the bing maps sliverlight version out of beta and making it the default version for. The rich imagery, quality geospatial data, and leadingedge technol. Its original stand out feature was the aerial imagery. Please use the print button on the bing maps action bar to print.
Add the bing maps v8 web control to your web page in a few simple steps. Resizing and autoscaling pushpin in bing maps silverlight. Hello moises casusol, unfortunately the information layer does not support this pushpin class. The idea being that if the array contained search results, the firstmost relevant result would be rendered on top rather than being covered by other nearby pushpins.
To run a test drive of the bing maps control for phone applications, make sure you have the windows phone 7 tools installed into microsoft visual studio 2010 see the download link at the end of this article, and then proceed to create a new, blank silverlight application for the windows phone. Custom pushpins in bing maps silverlight rickys microsoft. Custom pushpins in bing maps silverlight rickys microsoft maps. To use the bing maps connector, go up to view, data sources and add the bing maps connector. Currently polygon and polyline shapes are built into the control but pushpins are not. Overview the goal of this blog is to detail each step in the process of creating a functioning silverlight application using bing maps.
The bing maps silverlight control adds stunning aesthetic. Q and a technet bing maps for silverlight customized. The administration section will offer you some parameters to customize the presentation. The typename property can be used to set class names on pushpins. Here is a stepbystep post for building a silverlight app that displays a bing map of the us, and adds a pushpin at each clicked location. But, what if you want to change the size of the pushpin. A native pushpin class for adding vector graphics to the bing maps silverlight control without using the silverlight native drawing tools.
Aug, 20 bing maps for silverlight customized tooltip for pushpins i recently had a requirement where i want to show a tooltip for pushpin and this is with bing maps for silverlight. This post will show you one easy method for adding hoverable infoboxes to pushpins that are similar to the ajax control. Our antivirus check shows that this download is clean. Pushpin syntax and icon styles bing maps microsoft docs. Pushpinsdots not created when sharing embedded maps. Until recently, embedded maps had the pushpin blue dot by default. Bing maps for silverlight customized tooltip for pushpins i recently had a requirement where i want to show a tooltip for pushpin and this is with bing maps for silverlight. But not all is lost, microsoft made it so that we can add uielements to the. You can specify an icon style and a label for a pushpin, in addition to its location. Mouseclick event equivalent of the old onclick event in. Simple infoboxes in bing maps silverlight rickys microsoft. Map namespace which you can use instead of the pushpin from veimageryservice. To view the 3d maps, users must install a plugin, then enable the 3d option on bing. Technet bing maps for silverlight customized tooltip for.
Change size and color of pushpin in ui for silverlight map. The two main alternatives to bing maps with wpf are bing maps ajax in a web application and bing maps silverlight. Before starting to write your first map app, you need to install the bing map. Upload silverlightbingmap including all files and directories within plugin into the wpcontentplugins directory activate the plugin through the plugins menu in wordpress visit the plugin settings at settings, set the activation key that you will find here. Microsoft bing maps silverlight control of ui for silverlight map. Once the project has been created, simply drag and drop the map control from the microsoft visual. Working with bing maps in silverlight and windows phone 7. Geocoding and more fun in bing maps for silverlight. You might have a look through the bing maps silverlight sdk or try one of the bing maps forums although a bing maps implementation can be done inside crm this forum is really more dedicated to developing around the dynamics crm platform itself. May 04, 2010 in the ajax control of bing maps we could easily add infoboxes to our pushpins by setting the title or description property.
Lets create a bing map silverlight application and integrate it with sharepoint 2010. Upload silverlight bingmap including all files and directories within plugin into the wpcontentplugins directory activate the plugin through the plugins menu in wordpress visit the plugin settings at settings, set the activation key that you will find here. Map multiple locations, get transitwalkingdriving directions, view live traffic conditions, plan trips, view satellite, aerial and street side imagery. Jul 31, 20 the following post gives a very simple tip on how to add a pushpin custom to bing maps in your windows 8 application. This week i played around with the bing maps silverlight control to find out how easy it would be to get a map up and running in an application, place pins on said map and get the name of the country that the user has clicked on. A native pushpin class for adding vector graphics to the bing maps. Step 2 add references to the bing maps silverlight control api. Heres a link to download a small silverlight project that implements the. Since this control is still in ctp there are a lot of desired functionalities that have not made it in yet. Upgrading from bing maps ctp to version 1 catapult systems. When the installation completes, you can choose to open the bing maps silverlight control sdk help file bingmapssilverlightcontrolsdk. Bing maps silverlight control lies within development tools, more precisely web.
Sdk is based on silverlight 4, you also need to install the silverlight 4 tools. Unfortunately there is little you can do as far as customizations. Jun 12, 2012 this tutorial demonstrates how to create a pushpin from a specified image. Discover more about fundamental concepts of the map control, and how to add basic data visualizations to the map. It was a continuation of previous microsoft technologies such as microsoft mappoint and terraserver. Databinding shapes with the bing maps control for silverlight. As luck would have it i happen to have a demo that needed to work offline as there was no guarantee that there would be internet when the demo was going to. Accessing the bing maps rest services using php bing maps. In this post i will show you how to use the bing map control in the silverlight application to show the location on map. The pushpin class derives from the iprimitive interface. To create a new connector to bing maps, ill first need to know the api key. The reason i want to make it larger is so that i can add more content into the head of the pushpin.
We added some new classes for extending the map types that are available from with the bing maps silverlight control. The most popular version among the program users is 1. May 02, 2010 custom pushpins in bing maps silverlight rbrundritt may 2, 2010 in the bing maps silverlight control there is a pushpin object that you can use to mark locations on the map. Using the bing maps silverlight control json codes. And just for fun i added some hover functionality when you browse over the pushpins. Add an interactive map in your wordpress posts based on bingmap and silverlight. Creating mobile map infoboxes with bing maps and jquery mobile. Your platform for locationbased solutions the bing tm maps platform brings location data to life by making it easier to visualize, under stand, and analyze. I tried to make a custom pushpin for the bing maps silverlight control, but i can only add 1 pushpin. Resizing and autoscaling pushpin in bing maps silverlight chris.
Visualizing pointbased business intelligence data on bing maps. If you are completely unfamiliar with adding push pins to a wpf bing. These apps are only accessible through bing maps silverlight. Using bing map control in silverlight for beginners. Now let us start to create the application to use the bing map. First lets create a custom pushpin class extending the pushpin. In the bing maps silverlight control there is a pushpin object that you can use to. Ve silverlight control pushpins, infoboxes, and best map. In modal i have only one class mapmodal which is used as the source for the map control which have only two properties one is the maplocation which is of type location data type in the bing map dlls used for latitude and longitude and the other property is the tooltiptext property used to show the tool tip of the pushpin.
Local events, which displays the days happenings on a map of a particular. You can download the complete code with samples here. The oba app shows bus information on the left panel and pushpins on the. Dec 31, 2009 to download the source of this silverlight geocoding for bing maps application, click here. Mar 05, 2011 author nishant rana posted on march 5, 2011 march 5, 2011 categories bing map, silverlight tags bing map, silverlight 2 thoughts on using geocode service to show addresses as pushpins in bing map silverlight control. Pushpin clustering in bing maps v8 maps blog visualizing pointbased business intelligence data on bing maps. The march 2009 release of the virtual earth control for silverlight now known as the bing map control was a great release. This series on silverlight has certainly been quite an adventure. I hope that you had an opportunity to learn a few things along the way. We are inheriting from the bing maps class pushpin, which will allow us to.
Place base pushpin provides an easy to use javascript application programming interface for embedding scrollable maps into your website. Using mouseclick event to add pushpins mar 26, 2009. Aug 14, 2011 sharepoint 2010 has a silverlight webpart which takes the url of the xap file created from a silverlight application and shows it in the sharepoint 2010 pages. Jun 18, 2012 this is a simple application for beginners to use to develop windows phone 7 tools that help to create a pushpin a in website map. In the bing maps silverlight control there is a pushpin object that you can use to mark locations on the map. Integrating bing maps into power apps pragmatic works. Upgrading from bing maps ctp to version 1 i am in the process of updating all of my sharepoint 2010 projects from beta to rc. Add an image on the map while using the bing maps silverlight control, you may need to put a marker on a certain location, thanks to pushpin class. Create a sample silverlight application with visual studio file new project silverlight application. Add a simple pushpin with bing maps in a windows phone 7. In the silverlight control there are no built in infoboxes.
Building interactive maps with silverlight and bing maps. Getting started with the bing maps silverlight control. Make sure you set the debug code type to silverlight. This new html5 power map control brings a lot of performance improvements and many new features. In my case, ill use the addressbilling address for the pragmatic works account in florida. Building interactive maps with silverlight and bing maps credera. Using geocode service to show addresses as pushpin s in bing map silverlight control. Welcome to the bing maps v8 web control, microsofts modern web mapping developer kit optimized for enterprise scenarios.
Search results appear both on a leftside rail and as pushpins on the map. Microsoft to drop 3d, plugin need in bing maps cnet. However, i cannot figure out how to add the content i want to the head of the pushpin without it being cut off. Add custom pushpin bing maps sdk windows 8 codeproject. Nov 02, 2009 the march 2009 release of the virtual earth control for silverlight now known as the bing map control was a great release. This software development kit sdk provides the binaries and programming reference for the bing maps silverlight control. Microsoft is cleaning house at bing, dropping one feature completely, while dropping the need for the companys silverlight browser plugin to use.
I have worked with bing map ajax control, and it has this thing called infobox which is found on microsoft. A microsoft silverlight bing map with 3 pushpins created. This bingmap plugin allows a smooth integration of an interactive map in your wordpress site. Bing maps dropping silverlight for html5 the next web. In the ajax control of bing maps we could easily add infoboxes to our pushpins by setting the title or description property. Getting started with bing maps silverlight control v1. Well, in this tutorial ill cover the basics of working with the map.
In previous tutorials i covered the basics of adding polygons and polylines and adding media images, video, etc. Plotting pushpins on the bing maps silverlight control is really simple. Download bing maps silverlight control sdk from official microsoft. The pushpinfactorycontract type provides handy methods for creating common pushpin ui elements. Bing maps was originally launched as msn virtual earth, which was released for beta testing on july 24, 2005. Using geocode service to show addresses as pushpins in bing.
A second approach uses bing maps in a somewhat more supported manner and makes use of jquery to help it out. The original version lacked many of its distinguishing features, including birds eye view and 3d maps, and the collections. Pushpins, sometimes known as mapicons or markers, are the primary method in the bing maps v8 map control to add a graphical image and text at a location within the map. Custom pushpin with pop up on hover in bing map silverlight control. Custom pushpin with pop up on hover in bing map silverlight. Integrating bing maps with wpf visual studio magazine. Create a silverlight project in vs and reference both dll from the local folder.
Of course as workaround you can create your own class that will inherit from frameworkelement, but the 2010. If you would like to see the bing maps silverligth control in action and see the source code that powers each example. For information about how to sign up for a bing maps developer account and get a bing maps key, see getting a bing maps key. In short for the 3d view of bing maps, the company is dropping their plugin which runs on silverlight, and will instead bakein its capabilities into the larger map function of bing using html5. When an array of pushpins are added to the map or a layer, the first pushpin is rendered last. Bing maps silverlight control software free download. How do i make the silverlight bing maps pushpin larger. Pushpin is simple, but what if i have requirements to put an image picture such as an arrow, a category image, or even my own photo. Recently i was developing an application for a client using bing maps silverlight control and realized that there have been some changes since i last wrote about it. Ive used and like all three approaches, but i really like bing maps with wpf. I had a lot of fun learning how to use the bing maps silverlight control for a few social computing demos that i built. Bing maps silverlight control free download windows version.
By downloading and installing the bing map sdk on your system you will have the libraries and the sdk for the bing map on your system. Before we start download and install bing maps silverlight control sdk. Optionally you can add the control in visual studio toolbox. Using bing maps silverlight offline rickys microsoft.
Bing maps for silverlight customized tooltip for pushpins. Before beginning, youll need to download and install the. The general idea is to first assign each pushpin a unique typename property. Bing maps on wpf and custom pushpin tutorial for pixelsense. The virtual earth bing silverlight control ctp release was announced at mix09. The installer will install the bing maps silverlight control within the program files on your computer, along with an sdk documentation help. Jun 04, 2010 resizing and autoscaling pushpin in bing maps silverlight. Pushpins dots not created when sharing embedded maps for the last few weeks, when i create an embedded map to put on a website, the map displays properly but there is no pushpin or blue dot for the address or coordinates. This will also be the first of a series of blogs that explore the versatility and extendibility of this application to other microsoft technology platforms including sharepoint, crm, and asp. Recently on the forums there have been some requests on how to get the bing maps silverlight control to work offline.
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