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september 2009 - Posts

• Displaying Additional Information With Your Silverlight Overlays

  Plotting a marker on your map is good for making your users aware that there is something worth noting at a certain geographic location. But even with Silverlight there is a limit to what you can reasonably display at the top level. The InfoContent is an attached property defined by the OverlayManager (Reimers.Silverlight.Bing.OverlayManager). It takes a UIElement, which is what will be displayed when the overlay is clicked. You set the InfoContent attached property like you would any other attached property, either in XAML or in code. Read More... Posted 13. september 2009 15:31 by jjrdk | 0 Comments

• Using the OverlayManager

  The OverlayManager (Reimers.Silverlight.Bing.OverlayManager) is intended to facilitate displaying overlays on the Bing Maps Silverlight control. The map control is very good for displaying map imagery, but in my opinion it gives you too much flexibility when it comes to displaying overlays. Let's face it, there's so much you can do in the Silverlight world, that it's easy to get overwhelmed. The OverlayManager is intended to help you perform common tasks when it comes to displaying overlays on a map. Read More... Posted 10. september 2009 20:32 by jjrdk | 13 Comments Filed under: Silverlight, Maps, OverlayManager

• Google Maps for Silverlight

  The Silverlight control allows you to display map imagery from Google's Static Map API v2. The StaticMap control supports all the features of the Static Map API v2, which means you can display overlays and many different image types. You can define all the properties directly in XAML or you can bind them to other values in your application. So if you don't need all the flash of DeepZoom maps, but need to display some geographic data, then this is what you are looking for. Read More... Posted 3. september 2009 20:04 by jjrdk | 2 Comments Filed under: Google Maps, Silverlight, Google Static Maps