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Microsoft Lync 2010 and Bing Maps Integration

2012-05-28T12:46:27Z

Recently I was working on a demo where I wanted to show Bing Maps and Microsoft Lync integrated together. This is something I have been wanting to do for a while but just never seemed to have time to get around too. I had put this off as I was expecting it to take me [...]

Conversion between Spherical and Cartesian Coordinates Systems

2008-10-14T16:18:17Z

When representing the location of objects in three dimensions there are several different types of coordinate systems that can be used to represent the location with respect to some point of origin. Locations on a Virtual Earth map are represented by the spherical coordinate system. The spherical coordinate system uses three parameters to represent a [...]

Drive More Sales: Upgrade your website with Bing Maps for Enterprise (EPG284CAL)

2012-04-25T18:33:11Z

Drive More Sales: Upgrade your website with Bing Maps for Enterprise (EPG284CAL)April 26, 20128:00 am to 9:00 am Pacific Time Session Overview:Give your customers a great mapping experience and help them find your business locations faster with Bing Maps on your website. Switching to Bing Maps from another mapping platform does not need to be [...]

Bing Maps & Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

2012-04-25T10:26:43Z

One of the great things about Bing Maps is that is works really well with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. In this post I’ll provide an overview of a bunch of useful resources for adding Bing Maps to your CRM environment. To start, here is a great blog post that has a number of great [...]

Free Bing Maps Excel Addin

2012-04-10T13:28:11Z

A few months ago I posted about the MapCite Excel Addin which you could get a free trial for. They have since made this freely available. They have a more advance pro version also available which you can purchase. I would definitely recommend checking the free version and if you like it take a look [...]

Bing Maps WPF Internet Connection Issue

2012-04-05T16:10:00Z

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 [...]

Drawing Grid Lines in Bing Maps

2012-04-04T09:21:33Z

One request I see on the Bing Maps forums from time to time is how to draw grid lines on the map. I had looked into this in the past but found some weird issues with the lines disappearing and slow performance. There are a couple of ways to get around these issues. The one [...]

Get entity by property in Bing Maps V7

2012-04-02T14:27:22Z

Every once in a while a question comes up on the forums around how to extend the functionality of the map controls. A simple example of one such request was the ability to get a tile layer by name. In Bing Maps v6.3 we had functionality that allowed us to do this. In Bing Maps [...]

Label Pushpins in Bing Maps v7

2012-03-31T14:23:25Z

One common request I’ve seen on the forums is how to create a custom label on the map. There are two ways to do this. The first is to create an image with your text on it then use a tool like map cruncher to create a tile layer out of it. This method works [...]

FREE Seminars on March 29th 2012

2012-03-25T10:51:31Z

Location: Microsoft Cardinal Place, 100 Victoria Street, London, UK SW1E 5JL For a non-technical, management & business-focused audience:Location Intelligence for Decision-Makers (09:30am 12 March 2012) http://locationmatters-li-mar12.eventbrite.com For a technical, GIS / geospatial audience:Geospatial Convergence for GIS Professionals (1:30pm 12 March 2012)http://locationmatters-gc-mar12.eventbrite.com/

Three New Bing Maps V7 Modules

2012-03-16T18:14:32Z

In September of 2011 we started the Bing Maps v7 Module CodePlex Project. The purpose of this project is to create a single place where developers can find and share useful modules that expand the functionality of the Bing Maps V7 API. Currently, there have been 12 modules submitted to the project. With a number [...]

The Bing Maps Forums

2012-03-16T18:05:41Z

The Bing Maps MSDN forums are one of the best places to ask a question if you need help developing with Bing Maps. This forum has served us well for many years but over time has become harder and harder to manage. As the number of Bing Maps API’s has grown it has become difficult [...]

Bing Maps v7 Modules - Shape Toolbox Modue

2012-03-04T08:00:00Z

Add shape drawing and editing functionality to your mapping applications via the Shape Toolbox Module and Bing Maps v7 Module framework

New Bing Maps map style released

2012-02-29T02:58:19Z

Today the Bing Maps team announced the new unified map style they released. This new map style was created in partnership with Nokia and can be seen in both Bing Maps and in Nokia’s maps as well. I really liked the new map style until someone pointed out a major change in Japan which made [...]

Bing Maps v7 Modules - Drag Handle Module

2012-02-13T08:00:00Z

A walkthrough of implementing the Drag Handle Module using the Bing Maps v7 Module framework.

View Object properties in WPF TreeView

2012-01-30T08:27:17Z

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 [...]

Bing Maps WPF Control v1 released!

2012-01-21T00:12:51Z

In case you missed the news, last week we released the Bing Maps WPF Control version 1.0. Here is the original announcement from the Bing Maps Blog: Announcing the Bing Maps Windows Presentation Foundation Control v1.

The Bing Maps WPF control allows you to build Bing Maps applications using managed code for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications. The interface supports multi-touch with rotation, translation, and scaling and also works with the Microsoft Surface.

We have added several bug fixes and improvements since the Beta release last August including the following:

Added MapTileLayer class so you can add your own custom tile layer overlays to the map
Added MercatorMode class so you can instantiate a map control with no default tile overlay. You can use this with the MapTileLayer to show your own tiles as the base map overlay.
Added SSL support to the Map. See Map.UseHttps and Maps.UriScheme properties for more details.
Added support for hiding the scale bar control overlay. See ScaleVisibility property on the Map.
Improved map panning inertia so it now works with the mouse as well as touch. You can turn on map panning inertia with the UseInertia property on the Map.

Thanks to everyone who participated in Beta and gave us feedback. We were able to make a lot of the improvements you suggested on the Bing Maps Development forum.

You can download the control here: Bing Maps Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Control version 1.0

For more details see the Bing Maps WPF Control SDK

Dynamically updating data in Bing Maps V7

2012-01-17T23:05:18Z

One common request I get is for information on how to dynamically update the map with data as the user moves the map. Many people will attach to the viewchange event which will result in a large number of requests being made to a very poor performance. A better method is to use the viewchangeend [...]

Upcoming Bing Maps Events: Q1 2012

2012-01-17T10:18:39Z

Event:Location Intelligence for Enterprise EuropeDate: January 16 – 17, 2012Location: Regents Park Marriott, London, UKPresentation Title: Enhancing Location Intelligence through Visualization TechniquesPresented By: Vikas Arora, EMEA Solutions Specialist, Microsoft Event:MS Techdays 2012 – FranceDate: February 7 – 9, 2012Location: Paris, FrancePresentation Title: Open Data Ready ! Libérez vos données avec OData et le CloudPresented By: [...]

Upcoming Bing Maps Events: Q1 2012

2012-01-17T10:17:56Z