Bing Maps .NET REST Toolkit Made Open Source

Bing Maps .NET REST Toolkit Made Open Source

Many developers use the Bing Maps REST services to perform spatial queries such as geocoding an address or calculating routes and distances. The Bing Maps REST services are nice and fast, however, using them from a .NET application used to require a decent amount of work. The Bing Maps .NET REST Toolkit aims to make it easy to use these services from your .NET application by providing a portable class library, which wraps the Bing Maps REST...
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Part 2 - Bring your maps to life: Creating animations with Bing Maps (.NET)

Part 2 - Bring your maps to life: Creating animations with Bing Maps (.NET)

In a recent blog post, you saw how to use JavaScript and CSS3 to create custom animations. Now you’ll see how to create the same custom animations for a Windows Store app using .NET.  You are in luck, as all of these animations can be used with the Bing Maps WPF control as well with just a few tweaks. You can find the complete source code for this blog post in the MSDN code sample here. Setting up the base project To get started, open Visual...
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Microsoft Photo App

Microsoft Photo App

The Windows Team has finally released their much anticipated FREE Microsoft Photo application and it includes Geolocation information from Windows Maps!
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