Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK launced

Silverlight MVP Vikram Pendse (http://pendsevikram.blogspot.com) shared the following

Team Silverlight announced availability of Bing Maps Silverlight Control, More here :
http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/announcing-the-bing-maps-silverlight-control/

Its free and worth trying, I tried out this on my Silverlight app and working very smoothly, Even now one can Add Images or Videos and do Overlays on Maps with just few lines of code. This looks much much better than third party Map controls which you might have seen in past for Silverlight by different vendors.

Highlighted features :

· Silverlight 3 including support for Out of Browser

· Road and Aerial (with/without Labels) Map Modes featuring Deep Zoom with the Silverlight MultiScaleImage control

· Position Silverlight UIElements on Map including images, video, pushpins, polylines, & polygons with a few lines of XAML

· Data Binding with the MapItemsControl

· Use Bing Maps Web Services with the control for advanced Search, Geocoding, and Routing functionality

· Design-time integration with Expression Blend

· Scripting interface for coding with JavaScript

· Embed Silverlight Maps with a single URL in a web page

· Online Interactive SDK with demos and sample code showing how to use the control

Windows 7 Application Compatibility

Vijay Raj (MVP) has written a 5 part series on Windows 7 Application Compatibility.

AppCompat is one serious stop point whenever someone wants to move to a new OS (in this case, Windows 7). This series of posts covers information on how the core changes of Windows 7 will affect the Day-to-Day applications. It also covers methods to mitigate these issues from the basic viewpoint of Developers, IT Pros and End-Users.

· Part 1: How do you fix the OS Version Number Issues?

· Part 2: How do you Fix Browser Compatibility Issues?

· Part 3: Demystifying the Windows 7 Virtual XP Mode

· Part 4: Session 0 Isolation and Secure Desktop

· Part 5: Libraries, UAC, WRP and other Core Changes

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