CHAPTER 7

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Bing Maps for WPF

Web applications are well and good, but not every application is well suited to being a web application. Sometimes, what’s called for is a plain, old-fashioned, double-clickable executable, either because of business or feature constraints. Location-enabling a .NET application isn’t any more difficult than adding a Bing Maps assembly and control. In this chapter and the next, we show you how to do this first for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and then for the Windows Store for Windows 8.

In this chapter, we show you the ins and outs of using Bing Maps in WPF applications. As you might imagine from Microsoft, ...

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