Since rejoining the Bing Maps team, I’ve been heads down focusing on the developer experience for Bing Maps. What is WPF? The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides developers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences that incorporate UI, media, and documents.
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Today we are officially introducing three new modules and several new features for the Web map control. The new modules add some very handy features, and they really show off the dynamic module loading capabilities of the by adding functionality when you need it, and getting out of the way when you don’t.
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If you have looked at a Bing map in the last 24 hours you might have noticed a few new things about our road map style. The result is a new style designed to communicate more important information at a glance.
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Over the past few months, we’ve been testing some enhancements to the Bing Maps interface that we’re excited to now make available for everyone. The most apparent changes are to our task and navigation controls, where—based on your feedback—we’ve made it easier to find the most common actions to complete your task at hand.
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As many of you know, we recently rolled out some updates to the Bing Maps Web control. You can try them and more in our Interactive SDK!
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Bing Maps developers from Earthware, OnTerra and Infusion recently discussed Bing Maps’ latest features and development tips and tricks.
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Bing Maps developers from Earthware, OnTerra and Infusion will discuss Bing Maps’ latest features and development tips and tricks in a free webcast at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST on Tuesday, March 1.
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We’re just a few days away from Super Bowl XLV and with everyone preparing for Super Sunday, we figured at Bing Maps we’d do the same. Today, we updated the Bird’s-eye and Aerial images in the Arlington area to show off Cowboys Stadium.
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The Bing Maps REST Services has added a transit travel mode so you can get transit routes and even display a transit route on a static map in your application. All you need to know is where you want to go and what time of day and then the REST Services will return a transit route based on your request.
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Today we have the distinct pleasure of announcing the release of the new Bing Web map control v7 (V7). It seems to be the year of 7s at Microsoft and we’re excited to carry on the reputation that V7 does indeed denote something very special. Let’s start off with discussing V7 performance: – V7 is less than 1/3 the size of our v6.3 control.
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