Question

I was trying to create an app using Bing Map. in which i need to add two reference libraries

Microsoft.Maps.MapControl.Common.dll
Microsoft.Maps.MapControl.dll

I followed the tutorial from : http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/csharp/cs_misc/article.php/c18305__1/Working-with-Bing-Maps-in-Silverlight-and-Windows-Phone-7-Applications.htm

But when i installed BingMapAppSDK from Bing Maps it didn’t have these api.
It does have libraries

    Microsoft.Maps.Core;
    Microsoft.Maps.MapControl;
    Microsoft.Maps.MapControl.Types;
    Microsoft.Maps.Plugins;

But not the above ones.. Due to this i am not able to use Bing Maps.

I am using Visual Studio 2010 and creating Silverlight app and Silverlight 5 is installed.

Please suggest.

Answer 1

There are different Bing Maps SDKs for different platforms although, confusingly, they do share rather similar namespaces. It’s really unclear from your post which platform you’re trying to target…

• To develop a Silverlight Bing Maps application, you need the Bing Maps Silverlight control SDK, available from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=2949
• To develop a Windows Phone 7 Bing Maps application, you need the Windows Phone 7 SDK, http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27570
• To develop a “Bing Maps App” (note the quotation marks), which is a special kind of Bing Maps application that is hosted by Microsoft on the bing.com/maps site, you need the Bing Maps App SDK: http://connect.microsoft.com/bingmapapps

Note that there are also dedicated Bing Maps SDKs for iOS, Android, and WPF development, as well as the traditional AJAX control.