Working with the Bing Maps Silverlight Control

The Bing Maps Silverlight Control
Johannes Kebeck
Bing Maps TSP
jkebeck@microsoft.com

(Some) Recent Updates
New Geocoders in DE and UK  but overall quality improved
Dynamic Compute Network Services in the Cloud
New Imagery
http://bingmapsupdates.cloudapp.net/
http://hannesve.cloudapp.net/BM-SL-Coverage/Default.htm

Aerial/Satellite-Imagery Updates 10/01

Silverlight on the B2C Site
Weather

Drageable Routes on the B2C Site

Bird’s Eye in Silverlight on B2C Site

“Enhanced” Bird’s Eye on B2C Site

Streetside Imagery

Map Apps

Deep Photosynth Integration

Destination Maps

Getting Started: Embedded Maps

Getting Started
http://www.microsoft.com/maps/developers/

Getting Started
Bing Maps Key for
SOAP
AJAX
Silverlight
https://www.bingmapsportal.com/

Why Silverlight?
WPF
Silverlight
Win
Forms
AJAX
Increasing Richness
HTML
Increasing Reach

What does it mean for Bing Maps?
Improved map rendering: Panning and zooming now uses the DeepZoom-blending to transition between zoom-levels
Superior graphics framework: Support for WPF animations and transformations of graphics and videos.
Creating a consistent user experience in the browser: Available for users with Silverlight 2.0 or 3.0 installed. Supported browsers include Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.

Performance

What does it mean for Bing Maps?
Improved map rendering: Panning and zooming uses the DeepZoom-blending to transition between tiles
Superior graphics framework: Support for WPF animations and transformations of graphics and videos.
Creating a consistent user experience in the browser: Available for users with Silverlight 2.0 or 3.0 installed. Supported browsers include Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.
Utilize existing .NET skills: The Silverlight libraries are a subset of the .NET Framework 3.5. Visual Studio can be used to build the applications. Expression Blend can be used to build the user interface and graphical components. However, for the JavaScript-enthusiasts there is a scripting API for the Silverlight control.

The Right Tool for the Right Person
Page.xaml.vb
Page.xaml
Visual Studio for the Developer
Expression Blend for the Designer

CTP vs. v1
There are a lot of breaking changes
Requires Bing Maps Key
Build in Silverlight 3
Support for OOB
Pushpin-Object
Data Binding
Design-time support for Expression Blend
Languages DE, EN, ES, FR, IT
Scripting support
Bird’s Eye Imagery and Streetside (Available as CTP)

Interactive SDK and Reference

The First Applications
http://www.earthware.co.uk/demos/twittermap/

Note: Animations consume quite a bit of CPU
http://www.earthware.co.uk/demos/twittermap/

Windows Performance Analysis Tools
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/performance/cc825801.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/seema/archive/2008/10/08/xperf-a-cpu-sampler-for-silverlight.aspx

Windows Performance Analysis Tools
76.2% of the load comes from one IE process
60.29% is spent in Silverlight core
(graphics/decoding/property engine, etc. are all represented in agcore.dll)

Enable/Visualize Hardware Acceleration

http://incax.com/

http://eyeonearth.cloudapp.net/

http://environmentalatlas.net/

http://www.bendthetrend.net/

Getting Started
The first Map

The First Map

Getting Started
The first Map
Adding HTML-Content

Adding HTML-Content
http://johanneskebeck.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!42E1F70205EC8A96!10779.entry
http://hannesve.cloudapp.net/BM-SL-Photosynth/Default.htm
http://www.divelements.co.uk/silverlight/tools.aspx

Getting Started
The first Map
Adding HTML-Content
Connecting to a Database

Add Clustering
http://johanneskebeck.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!42E1F70205EC8A96!10821.entry
http://hannesve.cloudapp.net/BM-SL-PhotoMap/Default.htm

Getting Started
The first Map
Adding HTML-Content
Adding Tile-Layer

Adding a Tile-Layer

Some Performance Tips
Animations in Silverlight are great but try to restrain yourself
If you use videos
If possible avoid resizing the video in Silverlight.
The download-process spins CPU-cycles as well. Test it on older PCs or laptop.
Consider “Smooth Streaming”
Enable Hardware-Acceleration
HTML: <paramname="EnableGPUAcceleration" value="true" />
AND
XAML: CacheMode="BitmapCache“
If you connect to a database
Filter the points and retrieve only the points in the current map view
Consider clustering
If you draw polygons
Consider Rasterizing. The more points a polygon has the longer the rendering takes.

Further Information
Bing Maps for Enterprise
Bing Maps AJAX Control
Interactive SDK
Full AJAX-Reference Online (6.2)
Downloadable AJAX SDK (6.2)
Intellisense for JavaScript
Bing Maps Web Service
Full SOAP Reference Online (1.0)
Downloadable SOAP SDK (1.0)
Bing Maps Silverlight Control
Download
Interactive SDK
Online Reference
Bing Maps 3D Control
Documentation
VE3D Team Blog
More on Bing Maps
On Microsoft.com
Bing Maps
Bing Maps for Mobile Devices
Sign-Up for a Developer Account
Bing Maps Tile System
Understanding Scale & Resolution
Integrating OGC Web Map Services
MapCruncher (Beta)
Caligari trueSpace
Forum
Chris Pendleton’s Blog
Ricky BrundrittsBlog
My Blog
Data Updates Visualized
Multimap
AJAX and REST SDK Online
MapPoint Web Service
SOAP SDK Online
Related Technologies
MSR HD View
MSR ICE
Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth
Microsoft Chart Controls
Microsoft Silverlight Toolkit

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