Microsoft Mapping: Geospatial Development with Bing Maps and C#

by Ray Rischpater, Carmen Au

Overview

Geospatial mapping applications have become hugely popular in recent years. With smart-phone and tablet numbers snow-balling this trend looks set to continue well into the future. Indeed, it is true to say that in today’s mobile world location-aware apps are becoming the norm rather than the exception.

In Microsoft Mapping author Ray Rischpater showcases Microsoft's Bing Maps API and demonstrates how its integration features make it by far the strongest mapping candidate for business that are already using Windows 8 or the .NET Framework. Whether you want to build a new app from scratch of add a few modest geospatial features to your existing website Ray's carefully chosen examples will provide you with both the inspiration and the code you need to achieve your goals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430261094
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	11/14/2013
Series:	Expert's Voice in Microsoft
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Ray Rischpater is a freelance consultant and author with over eight years of experience writing about and developing for handheld computing platforms. During this time, Ray has participated in the development of Internet technologies for J2ME, QUALCOMM BREW, Palm OS, Newton, and Magic Cap, and proprietary operating systems for vertical handheld computers. In addition, he's consulted during the development of websites for wireless devices using HTML and WAP. Ray is a senior software engineer at Rocket Mobile, Inc. and holds a bachelor's degree in pure mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Wireless Web Development, Second Edition and Wireless Web Development with PHP and WAP.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started with Microsoft and Mapping
• Painless Hosting with Azure
• Geospatial with Azure SQL Database
• Hosting WCF Services on Windows Azure
• Map Visualization with Bing Maps for the Web
• Doing More with Bing Maps
• Bing Maps for WPF
• Bing Maps for Windows Store Apps
• Bing Maps for Windows Phone 8
• Power Map for Excel