14 DAY TRIAL // Following the unveiling of the Beta for the Bing Maps WPF control in August last year, Microsoft has made available for download the official release of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Control 1.0.
The software developer tools that Microsoft has just published on its website are meant to enable the building of applications that use Bing Maps with WPF or Surface.
The new control was built on top of the Beta Bing Maps WPF control, and offers all of the touch capabilities for Surface v 2’s Pixel Sense, inertia and full rotation.
It also comes with most of the classes, methods and properties that were included in the Beta, which means that developers will not have to work too much to install and register v1.
The software development kit (SDK) is available for download from Softpedia as well, via this link. It includes all of the necessary binaries and programming reference for the Bing Maps WPF control.
The Bing Maps Windows Presentation Foundation Control, Version 1 comes with a series of fixes and new features as well.
The release notes for the new control include:
Support for tile layers – you can now overlay your own tile layers atop the map control.
Turning off the base tile layer – this is useful for when you don’t need/want to use our base map tiles and instead would prefer to use your own without overlaying them atop of ours. The control won’t request the tiles which reduces downloads and improves rendering performance.
SSL Support – since many of you are using the WPF control in secure applications, you can now make tile and service request over SSL without issue.
Hiding the scale bar – if you don’t want a scale bar (perhaps your map is small and the scale bar clutters the map) you can turn it off. In fact, the only elements you can’t turn off are the Bing logo and the copyrights.
New copyright service – provides accurate copyright for our data vendors.
Additional inertia – inertia is now enabled for the mouse and is on by default for touch.