Using Bing Map in your Windows Phone App

Using Bing Map in your Windows Phone App

 

In this post I explained how to use the bing map in your Windows Phone Application.

To use the Map service first we have to import the following statements

   using System.Device.Location;

   using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks;

  

You will get the following error in the statement

     using System.Device.Location;

To resolve this error follow the steps 

First right click on your project name and Click on Add Reference 

Then search for the System.Devices in the assembly and include it thats it your error is resolved 

 

Now use the following code to search Bing Map 

            BingMapsDirectionsTask bingMapsDirectionsTask = new BingMapsDirectionsTask();

            LabeledMapLocation endpt = new LabeledMapLocation("Tanjore", null);

            LabeledMapLocation startpt = new LabeledMapLocation("Chennai", null);

            bingMapsDirectionsTask.Start = startpt;

            bingMapsDirectionsTask.End = endpt;

            bingMapsDirectionsTask.Show();

  

This is the code for Get Directions in Bing Map (I created App to get direction between Tanjore and Chennai ).

MainPage.xaml

<phone:PhoneApplicationPage

    x:Class="Map_Sample.MainPage"

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

    xmlns:phone="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"

    xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"

    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"

    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"

    mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="480" d:DesignHeight="768"

    FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"

    FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"

    Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"

    SupportedOrientations="Portrait" Orientation="Portrait"

    shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="True">

    <!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed-->

    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent">

        <Grid.RowDefinitions>

            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>

            <RowDefinition Height="*"/>

        </Grid.RowDefinitions>

        <!--TitlePanel contains the name of the application and page title-->

        <StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,17,0,28">

            <TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle" Text="MY APPLICATION" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>

            <TextBlock x:Name="PageTitle" Text="Map Sample" Margin="9,-7,0,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle1Style}"/>

        </StackPanel>

        <Button Content="Get Directions" Grid.Row="1" Height="72" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="113,200,0,0" Name="button1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="303" Click="button1_Click" />

        <!--ContentPanel - place additional content here-->

    </Grid>

    <!--Sample code showing usage of ApplicationBar-->

    <!--<phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar>

        <shell:ApplicationBar IsVisible="True" IsMenuEnabled="True">

            <shell:ApplicationBarIconButton IconUri="/Images/appbar_button1.png" Text="Button 1"/>

            <shell:ApplicationBarIconButton IconUri="/Images/appbar_button2.png" Text="Button 2"/>

            <shell:ApplicationBar.MenuItems>

                <shell:ApplicationBarMenuItem Text="MenuItem 1"/>

                <shell:ApplicationBarMenuItem Text="MenuItem 2"/>

            </shell:ApplicationBar.MenuItems>

        </shell:ApplicationBar>

    </phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar>-->

</phone:PhoneApplicationPage>

  

MainPage.xaml.cs

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Net;

using System.Windows;

using System.Windows.Controls;

using System.Windows.Documents;

using System.Windows.Input;

using System.Windows.Media;

using System.Windows.Media.Animation;

using System.Windows.Shapes;

using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;

using System.Device.Location;

using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks;

namespace Map_Sample

{

    public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage

    {

        // Constructor

       

        public MainPage()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

        {

            BingMapsDirectionsTask bingMapsDirectionsTask = new BingMapsDirectionsTask();

            LabeledMapLocation endpt = new LabeledMapLocation("Tanjore", null);

            LabeledMapLocation startpt = new LabeledMapLocation("Chennai", null);

            bingMapsDirectionsTask.Start = startpt;

            bingMapsDirectionsTask.End = endpt;

            bingMapsDirectionsTask.Show();

        }

    }

}

Sample Output

Download Sample Code

(Sample_Map.zip) File Size : 70 KB