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Adding Polylines and Polygons in Bing Maps Apps

Currently the Bing Maps App SDK .chm documentation covers how to add Pushpins on the map, but not polylines and polygons.  When creating your entities, rather than passing in a PointPrimitive instance to the Entity.Primitive property, you can pass in …

How to Install Bing Maps App SDK with Visual Studio 2010

For those who tried installing the Bing Maps App SDK (http://connect.microsoft.com/bingmapapps) you will likely come upon the following error when running the .msi.

Even though I had Visual Studio 2010 (Premium) installed and the latest Silverlight 4.0 runtime installed, …

Handling Virtual Earth 6.2 “No Bird’s Eye Imagery” Bug

There are locations in Virtual Earth where Bird’s eye Imagery doesn’t exist for certain directional facings.  When a user attempts to rotate the Bird’s eye view when imagery is unavailable for that directional facing, maps.live.com displays a warning message.  Nothing will occur by …