Two and a half months ago, at the Microsoft //Build/ Conference, the Bing Maps team announced the preview release of the Bing Maps V8 web control. Since then, the team has been working hard fixing bugs, adding new features and support for mobile, and making the Bing Maps V8 control stable and ready for production. Today we are happy to announce that Bing Maps V8 control has graduated from preview and is ready for use in production applications.
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Technical Evangelist and host of Visual Studio Toolbox, Robert Green,  is joined by Bing Maps Program Manager, Johannes Kebeck who demonstrates how easy it is to add maps to your application.  Johannes reviews features of Bing Maps, shows you how to use the Bing Maps AJAX Control Version 7.0 Interactive SDK to see what JavaScript code you would write to perform a variety of actions with maps and demonstrates both a Web and Windows Store project in...
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I mentioned in my “Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released” blog post that we altered the Bing Maps terms of use and it would require a post all on its own. Well, here’s why. We’ve made a bunch of changes which makes things easier to understand, easier to use and easier to get started. The way the mapping industry grew up, depended on counting transactions. A transaction is either (a) a geocoding request/response, a...
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  PHP – did anyone ever find out what this actually was an acronym for? “Personal Home Page” or “PHP Home Page” or something else? Accessing the Bing Maps REST Services using PHP - Bing Maps | Microsoft Learn
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This article has been superceeded by Get Bird's Eye Views in Your Next Great Maps App or Web Experience | Maps Blog (bing.com)
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The City of Seattle uses  Bing Maps for Enterprise for The Traveler’s Information Map. Check it out for yourself and enjoy travelling Seattle!
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I reserved a part of my day to explore Windows Azure and how it can work with the Microsoft Virtual Earth Web Service. In my investigation I found out that what I was really interested in is The Azure Services Platform (to clarify any branding issues). In fact, "Windows® Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform...
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Richard Brundritt and Robert McGovern from Infusion Development just got their "Developing a Mobile Application Using Virtual Earth Web Services" technical article published on MSDN and it’s available for your reading and plagiarizing pleasure. Excerpt: "The constraints of mobile device applications are very different than the traditional web or desktop applications. Unlike a desktop or web application, the screen real estate...
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I’ve been working on this one for a while and it kind of completes the basics for getting started with the Virtual Earth Web Service. The Routing Service in Bing Maps allows for route calculation and itinerary creation.  The following will get you started using the routing service. 
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Christopher Mitchell may have authored the article "Use GPS And Web Maps For Location-Aware Apps" for MSDN Magazine and it’s was published on the site, but now it is pretty obsolete. In it's stead, I'd like to point you to the latest SDKs we have available for Windows, iOS and Android devices!
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