By Chandu Thota
First Edition
December 2005
Pages: 372
ISBN 10: 0-596-00906-2 |
ISBN 13: 9780596009069
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
This comprehensive guide shows you how to use MapPoint's interactive mapping abilities to improve your company's bottom line. Learn how to build custom applications for the desktop, web, and mobile devices. Perfect for anyone who wants to render maps, calculate routes, obtain real-time location information, and analyze map data.
Full Description
Programming MapPoint in .NET from O'Reilly shows you how to use MapPoint to build custom applications for the desktop, the web, and mobile devices. The book also explains how to analyze and share data generated from a wide range of maps, including those that show demographic trends, population density, and sales potential. Chandu Thota, one of Microsoft's main MapPoint developers and the book's author, has organized the material into four major sections, each dedicated to a different MapPoint technology:
- MapPoint 2004 - calculating routes, rendering data maps, integrating with Global Positioning System (GPS) for obtaining real-time location
- MapPoint Web Service - techniques for finding points of interest, creating applications using the Find APIs and Route APIs, rendering LineDrive maps and polygons
- MapPoint Location Server - deployment scenarios, getting real-time location using mobile phones, managing contacts and privacy settings
- MSN Virtual Earth - the basics of programming with new MSN Virtual Earth APIs
The book provides a jumpstart for working with these technologies, including in-depth discussions about the core concepts and sample code provided in C#. It's ideal for anyone who wants to develop locations-based applications with MapPoint technologies.
The next time you follow online directions to the airport, you can chalk up an assist to MapPoint's state-of-the-art interactive mapping abilities. Better yet, you'll know how to create that same type of map yourself.
Featured customer reviews
Way to go, September 28 2006
This is first book focus on .Net application development for MapPoint.
There are lots of new enhancements on .Net development environment, since this book printed:
1. much better VS 2005
2. finally .Net 2.0 framework
I would like to see:
1.
- Chandu
2.
- Microsoft
Media reviews
"...if you want to develop a location-based application using one or more of the Microsoft technologies, Programming MapPoint in .NET provides detailed coverage of MapPoint 2004, MapPoint Web Service, MapPoint Location Server, and MSN Virtual Earth...One does not have to be a professional programmer to derive an understanding of how each of the applications works, and what can be achieved on the development side. Anyone with an interest in electric cartography should find much of interest. This is an important addition to the literature."
-- Major Keary, PC Update
"Author Chandu Thota has done an outstanding job of writing a book that provides an integrated set of products, servers, and services that helps enterprises improve their customers' experience by applying mapping and location...This most excellent book provides a jump-start for working with the preceding technologies, with in-depth discussions about the core concepts and sample code provided in C#. More importantly, this book covers the most common application development scenarios with the MapPoint platform."
-- John Vacca, Amazon.com
