Bing & Silverlight: Perfect Together

Frank La Vigne
Tablet PC MVP
Co-Author Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development
www.franksworld.com
@Tableteer | @SilverlightDC | @XAMLToe
Bing Maps & Silverlight:Perfect Together

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Oh Yeah, What Exit?
I used to live here.

In 2004, I moved here.

Then here.

Got married.

Just had a baby boy.

I even wrote a book.
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Bing Maps & Silverlight
Silverlight
Silverlight
Expression Blend
XAML
Mapping
Lat/Long
GeoCoding
Reverse GeoCoding

A word about Deep Zoom

How Deep Zoom works
Breaks up large images into smaller and smaller tiles
Makes for a better experience
Bing Maps control uses Deep Zoom at its core

Mapping Vocabulary

Lat/Long

Geo Coding
Process of converting an address or place name to a Lat/Long coordinate
4 Century Drive, Parsippany, NJ
 40.849089 / -74.455748
181 Howard Blvd, Mt Arlington, NJ
 40.906670 / -74.636586
441 E. Fordham Road, Bronx, NY
 40.861499 / -73.890057
This is usually done via a web service call.

Reverse Geo Coding
Process of converting an address or place name to a Lat/Long coordinate
40.849089 / -74.455748
 4 Century Drive, Parsippany, NJ
40.906670 / -74.636586
 181 Howard Blvd, Mt Arlington, NJ
40.861499 / -73.890057
 441 E. Fordham Road, Bronx, NY
This is also usually done via a web service call.

Location by IP Address
IP to Lat/Long
65.242.94.136  38.9311 / -77.3489
Least accurate
Most accurate on country level
VPNs and tethering will change results

Getting Started
The usual suspects
Visual Studio 2008/2010
Silverlight SDK
Expression Blend
Bing Maps
Down

More Information
Getting Started with Bing Maps Silverlight Control (with Download link)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681890.aspx
Bing Maps Silverlight Control Interactive SDK
http://www.microsoft.com/maps/isdk/silverlight/
Bing Maps Platform
http://www.microsoft.com/maps/
Bing Maps Platform for Developers
http://www.microsoft.com/maps/developers/
Bing Maps SDKs on MSDN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd877180.aspx
Bing Maps Account Center
https://www.bingmapsportal.com/

THANK YOU!
Frank La Vigne
www.FranksWorld.com
frank@franksworld.com
@Tableteer

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Bing & Silverlight: Perfect Together

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