A while ago Chris Pendleton had blogged about the new map style that has become the default in our consumer facing AJAX and Silverlight sites. With the latest update to our Bing Maps AJAX control you can now also optionally enable this new style in your own applications through VEMapOptions-properties. In fact there are four new options:
Below you’ll find a complete code sample that enables all of the new options.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Bing Maps - New Style</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ecn.dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.3"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> var map = null; function GetMap() { map = new VEMap('myMap'); var mapOptions = new VEMapOptions(); mapOptions.DashboardColor = 'black'; mapOptions.EnableClickableLogo = true; mapOptions.UseEnhancedRoadStyle = true; mapOptions.EnableSearchLogo = true; map.LoadMap(new VELatLong(49.03445642441512, 17.479999735951423), 3, null, false, VEMapMode.Mode2D, true, 0, mapOptions); } </script> </head> <body onload="GetMap();"> <div id='myMap' style="position:relative; width:600px; height:400px;"></div> </body> </html>
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If you're interested in using the new Bing Maps imagery style within Silverlight, then check out the following link:
pietschsoft.com/.../Use-New-Bing-Maps-Road-Imagery-In-Silverlight-Map-Control-Unofficially-Unsupported.aspx
its certainly worth exploring!