Reputation: 353
I just recently updated my OS to Windows 8 and also installed Visual Studio 2012 (Windows Phone 8 SDK).
I was playing around with the new interface and trying to see the new features installed and then whether or not my old projects (built in Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone) will load and I noticed a big time problem:
None of the Bing Maps were loading. Hmmmmm, that was weird I thought to myself. I know that for the Windows Phone 8 Microsoft has transitioned to Nokia mapping so I figured it must have something to do with that in the new SDK.
So I tried opening Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone SDK and loading the older projects (that were built in that SDK) and the same thing happened... None of the maps will load!!! I thought maybe it has something to do with the servers/api??? But that looks doubtful.
I'm a high school teacher and we are actually jumping in to developing phone apps using the MS VS 2010 Express for Windows Phone next week and all of the first couple of weeks' lessons are built around mapping (using Bing Maps).
I'll be in a world of hurt if I can't find a solution to loading those maps. Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!
Edit................................ Here are a couple of pictures to show you what the Design looks like and how the emulator is displaying the same data. (Not sure if this is connected but I wasn't able to take a screen capture [PrntScr] when the emulator was running)
Upvotes: 0
Views: 599
Reputation: 16092
Expanding on Martin Suchan's correct answer.
In WP8 the Bing Maps control has been deprecated, but is still available to developers who would like to use it for legacy reasons. It's recommended apps developed for WP8 transition over to the new Nokia Maps control built-into the ROM. But the Bing Maps control will still work on WP8 (even though its user experience will feel really out of place for WP8 consumers).
There's no need to add a reference from your WP8 project in order to use the new Map control since it's part of the references used by all WP8 projects.
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 10620
There are still Bing maps in WP8 SDK, you can find them in this folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.0\Libraries
Upvotes: 2