{"id":653,"date":"2011-03-07T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2011\/03\/07\/visual-basic-windows-phone-7-series-7-how-to-create-a-bing-maps-application-for-windows-phone-7\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:40:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:40:19","slug":"visual-basic-windows-phone-7-series-7-how-to-create-a-bing-maps-application-for-windows-phone-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/visual-basic-windows-phone-7-series-7-how-to-create-a-bing-maps-application-for-windows-phone-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series #7. How to create a Bing Maps application for Windows Phone 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our <\/span>previous post<\/span><\/a>, I explained how to create an application bar for Windows Phone 7. Bing Maps<\/b> is one of the applications that is commonly used on phones these days. In this blog post, I want to share a sample that will help you to create a Bing Maps application for Windows Phone 7. This application will provide the feature to view maps in road view and aerial view. This application will also provide the zooming in and zooming out features.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will now demonstrate how easy it is to create a Bing Maps application for Windows Phone 7, using Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools. The Bing Maps application can be created in 4 simple steps as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Create a sample application and add controls<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Add event handlers<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Build and debug the application<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Rebuild in the release mode before publishing<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Prerequisites:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n