I'm trying to find the best way to implement Bing maps into my ASP.NET MVC2 web application.
I came accross MvcMaps Preview1 on Codeplex but it doesn't work good, at least for me. Maybe that's because it's for .NET 3.5 and VS2008, I don't know.
I'd like to avoid Silverlight. What's your suggestion, what should I use and what's the easiest way to get a Bing Map show some data on it?
Thanks!
Check out the NerdDinner Tutorial. Part of the tutorial is the integration of maps within your web application.
I've written an MVC mapping application (all be it in PHP) and used OpenLayers for mapping. It's a client side Javascript library for mapping.
http://openlayers.org/
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I have a WPF/C# application.
It contains some .XAML pages.
i would like to integrate this application into my ASP.NET/C# web application.
I want the application to show in an asp.net page.
What is the best way to do this?
I heard that I can use Silverlight.
I never worked with silverlight before. Can I do it without knowing silverlight or should I have a knowledge in silverlight before doing it?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much
You can either deploy your WPF application as an XBAP or migrate it to Silverlight. I'd recommend the latter because you'll get better browser/os support.
Just create a new Silverlight project and copy your xaml files into it. Probably, everything will be compatible since both frameworks have a lot in common. Silverlight is a bit more restrictive since it's a web framework, but it also has other features that WPF doesn't. If you find something that's not compatible, just search for an alternative here.
Can you suggest some good Bing Map or Google Map control for ASP.net Webforms.
I have searched a lot on google and found few on codeplex but they perhaps are not stable.
Can any one of you suggest some good control whihc u have used earlier.
Thanks in advance
You could easily create you own control for this. Both google and bing have JavaScript API's
I have used this google one before though (without a problem) http://googlemap.codeplex.com/documentation
i am trying to integrate bing map with heat map feature into my wpf desktop application, is there any API to do this? i searched the microsoft website and i can only found API for developing a map apps, which i think is different from what i want... any idea where should i start??
update: i think microsoft only provide the bing API for silverlight, and i found this one for WPF, but i dont know how to generate the heat map on this... can anyone point me to somewhere?
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/BingMapsWebServiceExample.aspx
Maybe that 3rd party component from Telerik would be useful? If you can afford it, it will save you a lot of time.
http://www.telerik.com/products/wpf/map.aspx
It uses Bing maps and supports heat maps.
ArcGIS also offers a more flexible WPF control with heat maps, check the dev tools here
I'm going to develop a web application based on mathematics. It's going to provide stuff like canvas' showing graphs (quadratics etc.) and also provide an exercise area to test knowledge.
I am stuck as to which route to take. I haven't developed a Web Application before and I am most confident working in C# applications. I would prefer to use C# when creating this but I don't know if that is really appropriate.
I have the following routes that I could go down:
Silverlight - I haven't used this before but it seems to be the most obvious solution to me. I was wondering how hard it will be to develop an understanding of silverlight (xaml etc.)
Java, I haven't any idea about java, but I've heard it has a lot of similarities to C#.
Tclets, my university tutor said he has worked with this before and it's easier to get on the web, and very handy for gui's.
I thought I'd ask this here to get everyones opinion on which path to take, and sum up all the positives and negatives of each route.
Thanks in advance.
If you decide to go the Silverlight route the Silverlight Toolkit has some good graphing samples : Silverlight Toolkit Control Samples - which is itself a Silverlight application.
Using Silverlight is probably the closest you can get to writing a desktop application for the web. The UI is specified in XAML with the application layer in C#. The whole application sits within the Silverlight control and you can generate the menus and other navigation items you need.
It complies to a XAP file which you deploy and then reference from either an HTML page or ASP page.
If you are most comfortable with C# then I would advise developing it in ASP.NET. Heres a starting point: Creating ASP.NET Web Applications
I really can't speak to Java or Tclets but Silverlight will offer you a familiar programming model if you are most comfortable in C#. XAML requires a bit of a learning curve if you don't have any experience with it. You don't have to go 100% Silverlight though - it could be a hybrid HTML (ASP.NET) and Silverlight solution - where Silverlight could primarily be used for the graphing/charting. You could use HTML or a more sophisticated ASP.NET site for the remainder of the content.
How to show google maps in mobile application using .net2.0
A very simple approach is to use the Google Maps Static API, a HttpWebRequest and Image.Save to download an image of the map, e.g. "http://maps.google.com/staticmap?zoom=14&size=512x512&mapt
ype=mobile&markers=40.714728,-73.998672&key=YOUR-GOOGLE-MAPS-API-KEY" which can be shown in a PictureBox.
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tamberg
Late to the party, but you might find this helpful as well:
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2008/07/virtual-earth-and-google-maps-tiled-map.html
Should give you a bit more flexibility (zooming, moving around, etc... ) than the static maps API.
Do the maps absolutly have to be from Google? I was writing an application that made use of Live Maps to display maps on a Compact Framework application. When I wrote the app I used the 3.5 framework though, so I am not sure whether or not this will fit your needs.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/WiMoWifiPosition.aspx
There is various controls available to integrate Google Maps into an ASP.net website. Since the Sockets and Net libraries are available on Windows Mobile, you could possibly integrate using the Google Maps API, however will have to build your own controls to display the maps. The API can be found here.