Thanks to the new COM support in Silverlight 4 , it is now possible for an elevated OOB application to access a local SQL Compact database. Keep in mind that COM suppport only is available on the Windows platform, not on Mac. And thanks to the excellent SilverlightCOM Toolkit on Codeplex, it is very...
In this article I will explain how to find geographical coordinates: Latitude and Longitude of an address in Silverlight application. So that address can be displayed on the Bing Map. In last few articles I wrote about how to add multiple locations on the Bing map in Silverlight. In that we assumed that...
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I noticed a lot of people have misconceived notions of what Silverlight is and does. I will attempt to explain what Silverlight is and how it fits into the web spectrum. Many websites define Silverlight as: “Microsoft Silverlight is a web application framework that provides functionalities similar to...
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In this article I will show how to add multiple pushpins on the Bing Map in Silverlight in c-sharp. In previous article we saw one of the ways to add multiple locations on the Bing Map in Silverlight by fetching data from SQL Server Database . But in that everything was done in xaml file. As a developer...
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In my previous post I described how to add multiple pushpins on Bing Map by fetching data from XML data source .In this article I will step through the process to add multiple locations on the Bing Map by fetching the data from SQL Server Database . We cannot access SQL Server directly from Silverlight...
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In my previous post I described how to add multiple pushpins on Bing Map by fetching data from XML data source. In this post I will explain some basics of WCF Services to add multiple pushpins on Bing Map by fetching data from SQL Server Database. We cannot access SQL Server directly from Silverlight...
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In my previous post I described how to add multiple locations on the Bing Map by fetching the data from a XML file. In this article I will describe how to resize the Pushpin and change the default color. I assume here that you have gone through my previous post “ Bing Maps Binding XML Data Source ”....
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In my previous post I described how to create a simple Silver Light Application to show the Bing Map and add one location on the map.In this article I will step through the process to add multiple locations on the Bing Map by fetching the data from a XML file Recently I came across a requirement to show...
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For the majority of us, maps represent a useful tool which we often use in daily life when we are looking for a specific landmark, shopping centre or street name in an unfamiliar town or city. For business, map is a good marketing tool to attract the customers. Many Companies use Google Map to show its...