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Bing Maps SDK for Windows Store apps

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Bing Maps controls that provide mapping experiences for Windows Store apps.

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Visual Studio
2012
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3/21/2013
1.1.20120927.4
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by Nikitin Rostislav | April 10 2013

Found a bug. When map is rendered, I mouse over under the Road menu item and after that I pressed back button in current page (this is under the Metro style application built on JS/HTML) and error raises. It tries to hide popup by timeout but at that time the current window content is already changed and there are no corresponding element on the page.

Please fix it.

by Alex Sorokoletov | March 24 2013

Latest release reviewed:1.1.20120927.4

Well, Sometimes updates come. No idea what's being fixed, because there is no way to get any details on release notes. Threads on msdn forums are just viewed and no reply from any team member received. Okay, I'll give 2 stars instead of one. But please make transparent release notes, voting for features (uservoice, for example) and do answer at support forums. We're writing apps for your Store, so please be polite.



Older release reviewed:

No bindings. Designer support too awesome to be working. Often map doesn't show changes until you move it or do some other magic.

by Richard_Brundritt | March 22 2013

Solid SDK with new features regularly released. Note that most of the negative reviews are based on older versions that had less features and were buggy. This SDK is updated regularly so if you do have an issue report it to MSFT and they will likely try and correct it in one of these updates.

by Tomaž Ščavničar | February 14 2013

Hi. I used this examples in my Win8 JavaScript Grid app and found a problem. The map was not loaded, so the initialize function was not called because of:

document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", initialize, false);

I change it to the:

WinJS.Utilities.ready(initialize, true).done( /* Your success and error handlers */);

and everything worked fine.

I'v used this SDK: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Bing-Maps-SDK-for-Metro-31b378eb

Cheers

by Ivan 4ward | January 14 2013

Control is working fine, but there are too many missing features at the moment.
You have to use REST services to get data and manually add them to the map control

by marten_range | January 13 2013

So far the Control works fine for me, I am not so bothered about lack of bindable properties as I build my wrapper Control around Bing Map anyway.

by Can Bilgin | November 27 2012

great addition to windows 8 - metro stack.

by Viikki | November 08 2012

Many bugs and missing features comparing to WP7

by ComiscienceHelloWorld | November 07 2012

The display and performance of bing map is not good
And after i downloaded 1.1.20120927.1 version (Last updated 10/30/2012)
It still doesn't work well

And even more, test failed of bing map in arm windows surface rt platform

by sandør | November 06 2012

We finaly got Release build and Arm support :). Now needs some improvements on Binding and Templating :)

by MawashiKid | October 26 2012

I too experienced the same issues as some previous fellow reviewers cited.
Horrible...
It's sad to realize that this last Bing Map SDK version doesn't even nearly meet the basic WinRT criteria and is obviously far from being ready for common use..
Sorry to say folks, but this BM version sure needs a lot of refactoring...

by Tony Leone | October 13 2012

"Horrible SDK!
No support for bingings, causes the designer to work incorrect, etc.
I wasted too much time using this - hoping for an alternative in the future."

Idem, i cannot use this sdk for me app, resolve please !!

by Christopher Kellner | October 12 2012

Horrible SDK!
No support for bingings, causes the designer to work incorrect, etc.
I wasted too much time using this - hoping for an alternative in the future.

by einarabelc5 | October 10 2012

Found a bug with the Map Location Logic:

If your device is located on the West coast of the U.S.

Have Location Services permissions set to on on your App(Using this SDK)

Make a Call to My Location, map will scroll and zoom on the current location.

Zoom out to 400 miles/600 Km

Scroll the map over to Japan

Make another call to My Location.

Expected: Map scrolls back to current location on West coast and zooms in on Current Location, to the left:

Actual: Map scrolls to the right and zooms in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

by Utsav_Vishnoi | October 09 2012

This release is fine but still some problems i downloaded the SDK and install the .vsix file and added the reference of the new DLL in my project everything is fine but once i upload the whole solution on SVN and try to run the same project in another system in which i didn't install the SDK but i have the refernece of new dll , the BETA watermark is still there , to fix this problem i install the SDK after that watermark is gone forever , is this some issue with this release ?

by kiraningale | October 08 2012

I downloaded the new version of Bing map from this page. On this page the version of the bing map is 1.1.20120927.0
When I reference the downloaded Bing Map in my project, it is still showing the version number of 1.0.0.0
When I try to run "Windwos App Certification Kit" on my app, it is complaining about the BING MAPS. The certification tool fails with following error messages:

Error Found: The supported APIs test detected the following errors:
◦API ??0COMException@Platform@@QE$AAA@H@Z in vccorlib110.dll is not supported for this application type. Bing.Maps.dll calls this API.
◦API ??0ChangedStateException@Platform@@QE$AAA@XZ in vccorlib110.dll is not supported for this application type. Bing.Maps.dll calls this API.
◦API ??0Delegate@Platform@@QE$AAA@XZ in vccorlib110.dll is not supported for this application type. Bing.Maps.dll calls this API.
◦API ??0DisconnectedException@Platform@@QE$AAA@XZ in vccorlib110.dll is not supported for this application type. Bing.Maps.dll calls this API.
...
...
...

Any idea how to fix this issue?

by GhostZephyrus | October 08 2012

I Can't use it in my app.
It has a STOP Water mark in the middle of screen

by Bond Goat Nguyen | October 04 2012

It's cool, the data is updated more detail but seems that it's not smooth when moving or zooming in/out especially on touch device.

by r aditya gumay | October 04 2012

Very nice!

by harwi | October 04 2012

Got it installed by running the vsix file: the beta is gone, Cool!
(Nuget didn't work for me)
Thanks
Hans

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    Error
    9 Posts | Last Post April 29, 2013
    • Written October 08, 2012 
      I Can't use it in my app.
It has a STOP Water mark in the middle of screen
    • Written October 08, 2012 
      I'm suffering from this problem too.. No solution found. Please Fix this!
    • Written October 08, 2012 
      Same. I tried uninstall any bing map sdk and install again. Doesn't work ):
    • Written October 10, 2012 
      Some regions are not supported. Try settings the HomeRegion like this: myMap.HomeRegion = "US";
    • Written October 12, 2012 
      Same here
    • Written January 22, 2013 
      Well I was getting the same Red Stop sign issue some people have reported. This happens if your Computer's Location is set to unsupported country. Dunno what the white list is, but India is not supported. 
Go to Control-Panel->Clock,Language and Region->Change Location. Set Home Location to United States and test. Thing should work. What a mess!!!

BTW myMap.HomeRegion="US" suggested by Tore85 didn't work. Maybe I am doing it wrong so if he can supply a working sample it will help!
    • Written February 23, 2013 
      The list of unsupported regions can be found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj670541.aspx
    • Written March 15, 2013 
      Try setting the home region in your xaml:

HomeRegion="US"

Works like a charm both in my computer and in my surface
    • Written April 29, 2013 
      I believe this has been removed in the March 21st update. Try updating to the latest version and see if you still see this.
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    Is there any way we can get a change log for your updates?
    1 Posts | Last Post April 05, 2013
    • Written April 05, 2013 
      You guys seem to be kicking out updates every few weeks.  Which I am guessing is good.  It would be really nice to know what's changed / fixed / improved.  This way if we have some sort of fix or limitation we can re-evaluate that hack or omission with each release.  Also it would be almost essential to notify us of any API changes, additions or deprecations.  Thank you.
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    COM Error
    2 Posts | Last Post March 27, 2013
    • Written February 12, 2013 
      Hi

No idea what's going on but I get an error "Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component." on geolocator GetGeopositionAsync.
Try everything nothing work, any idea?
so far restarted, reinstall Bing Maps SDK (latest version). No luck so far, really need help
Thanks
Peter
    • Written March 27, 2013 
      Peter, did you ensure that the Windows Store App allows the Location permission?
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    Location Binding not working
    1 Posts | Last Post March 19, 2013
    • Written March 19, 2013 
      I have problems binding a double value to the latitude and longitude values of the location in my xaml.

Binding the same values to the latitude and longitude of a pushpin works though.

As a result my map's location is somehere next to Africa (must be 0,0). The pushpin gets displayed on its correct position.
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    i can´t install sdk
    1 Posts | Last Post February 26, 2013
    • Written February 26, 2013 
      i have a problem, i try to install de sdk bing maps and it brings a dialog window that is says aplication not found, whats the problem ???
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    The newest version is 1.1 or 1.0?
    2 Posts | Last Post November 07, 2012
    • Written November 07, 2012 
      The display and performance of bing map is not good
And after i downloaded 1.1.20120927.1 version (Last updated 10/30/2012)
It still doesn't work well

And even more, test failed of bing map in arm windows surface rt platform

Is the 10/30/2012 version is as same as 1.0 version?
    • Written November 07, 2012 
      After i installed the newest bing sdk metro, my application on the arm didn't work any...
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    Can not install
    1 Posts | Last Post October 31, 2012
    • Written October 31, 2012 
      "das erweiterungsmanifest ist ungültig"
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    How to deploy to another PC ??
    1 Posts | Last Post October 19, 2012
    • Written October 19, 2012 
      I've got the Bing Maps SDK working nicely - and packaged using Visual Studio - and took onto another Windows8 PC.   BUT - the Bing Maps extension wasn't included (I don't think)...

And the app crashes as soon as it starts - do I need to register the DLL's for Bing.Maps.Xaml ??     HOW ??
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    Prerequisits
    5 Posts | Last Post October 10, 2012
    • Written August 28, 2012 
      Do you need to install VS2012 and this extension on each app that uses the Maps? Our app works on our dev machines, but the tablet always crashes when trying to load the maps (which doesn't have VS2012 installed)
    • Written October 04, 2012 
      Same happens to me, even with the RTM versión.

Any ideas?
    • Written October 05, 2012 
      Did you remember to include the c++ framework reference that follows the Bing Maps reference?
    • Written October 10, 2012 
      Same to us. We have added the c++ framework reference, but it's not working on a target machine with x86 or x64 without Visual Studio installed.
    • Written October 10, 2012 
      The issue for us was that package created was in Debug. In Release it works properly
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    Urgend: Need reliable information about the release date
    1 Posts | Last Post October 02, 2012
    • Written October 02, 2012 
      I have an app that uses Bing maps as a crucial part. And I cannot submit it to the store due to the delay. I need to meet a deadline. 

So please tell us when the final release will be available.
Otherwise we have to find an alternative solution (without maps).

Greetings
Christian
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