Hour 7. Working with the GPS and the Bing Map Control

Windows Phone 7 allows you to add considerable value to your application by providing location information through the combination of a built-in global positioning system (GPS), assisted GPS (A-GPS), and the Microsoft Silverlight Bing Map control. These capabilities allow you to create very rich user experiences for your application that can update the information, and even functionality, based on the location of the user. By the end of this hour, you will build a simple application that incorporates GPS, data binding, and the Bing ...

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