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Author Au, Carmen, author

Title Microsoft mapping : geospatial development in Windows 10 with Bing Maps and C# / Carmen Au, Ray Rischpater
Edition Second edition
Published [New York] : Apress, [2015]
New York : Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer Science+Business Media New York, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Series The expert's voice in Microsoft
Expert's voice in Microsoft
Contents At a Glance; Contents; About the Authors; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Getting Started with Microsoft and Mapping; Mapping and Microsoft; Bing Maps for Developers; Microsoft SQL Server for Location Applications; Windows Azure to Host Your Application; Maps without Code: Microsoft Power Map; What You Need to Get Started; A Few Words on Terminology; Introducing the Sample Application; Developing Your Application; Wrapping Up; Chapter 2: Painless Hosting with Azure; Why Microsoft Azure?; Cloud-Computing Services
Virtual Machines (IaaS)Cloud Services (PaaS); Websites (SaaS); Microsoft Azure Data Management; Blobs; Tables; SQL Databases; Setting Up Microsoft Azure; Getting a Microsoft Azure Account; Getting the Microsoft Azure SDK; Hosting a Bing Map on Azure; Obtaining a Bing Maps Account; Obtaining a Bing Maps Key; Building the Bing Map; Hosting the Bing Map on Microsoft Azure; Wrapping Up; Chapter 3: Geospatial Data with Azure SQL Database; SQL Database Overview; Accessing Data in SQL Database; SQL Database Architecture Overview; The Client Layer ; The Service Layer
The Platform Layer The Infrastructure Level ; SQL Database Provisioning Model ; Federations in SQL Database; Geospatial Representation in SQL Database; Spatial Reference Systems Overview; SQL Database Spatial Data Types; Setting Up a SQL Database; Inserting Geospatial Data into a SQL Database; Wrapping Up; Chapter 4: Hosting WCF Services on Microsoft Azure; WCF: A Crash Course; Services; Endpoints ; Addresses ; Bindings ; Contracts ; Hosting; WCF Client ; WCF Client Proxy ; WCF Service for Earthquake Data; Creating the WCF Service ; Hosting the WCF Service on Azure
Client Application A Note on Debugging ; Wrapping Up; Chapter 5: Map Visualization with Bing Maps for the Web; Bing Maps Ajax Control Basics; Playing with the Map View; Map Markers; Setting the Location of a Pushpin ; Polygons; Putting It All Together; Create the Model; Loading the Earthquake Data (The Controller); Displaying the Earthquake Data (The View); Wrapping Up; Chapter 6: Doing More with Bing Maps; Location; Where Is It?; Sample Location Query Application; Where Am I?; Routing; Sample Routing Query Application; Directions Module ; Traffic; Theming
Building Your Own Modules Wrapping Up; Chapter 7: Bing Maps for WPF; Introducing the Bing Maps for WPF Control; Getting the Control; Key Classes and Relationships; Using the Control; Kicking the Tires; Earthquakes Everywhere!; Geocoding with the Bing Maps Geocoder Service ; Routing with the Bing Maps Routing Service ; Wrapping Up; Chapter 8: Bing Maps for Windows Universal Applications; Introducing Bing Maps for Windows Universal Applications; Seeing the Map Control in Action; Your First Windows Universal Map App; Creating a Custom Map Icon; Switching Map Modes
Summary This edition includes details about SQL Server 2014 and 3D and Streetside-capable map control for Windows 10 applications. It contains updated chapters on Microsoft Azure and Power Map for Excel plus a new chapter on Bing Maps for Universal Windows. The book tells a story of planning and deploying a single geospatial application built using Microsoft technologies from end-to-end. It provides: fully working code samples that show the concepts in use with ASP.NET 4.5 and Windows 10; complete solutions to the problems of geospatial development: visualization, hosting and localization of services; shows how Bing Maps API can be connected to the Azure Cloud; coverage of how the Bing Maps API can be implanted within Windows and Windows Phone applications for Windows 10 applications to provide a robust service tailored to the capabilities of each device; coverage of the new Windows 10 Bing Maps control. -- Edited summary from book
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from title page (Safari, viewed January 8, 2016)
SUBJECT Microsoft Windows (Computer file)
Microsoft Windows (Computer file) fast
Subject Cartography -- Data processing.
Maps -- Data processing
C# (Computer program language)
Microsoft software.
Software engineering.
Software Engineering.
Microsoft programming.
Computers -- Software Development & Engineering -- General.
Computers -- Programming -- Microsoft Programming.
Software engineering
Microsoft software
C# (Computer program language)
Cartography -- Data processing
Maps -- Data processing
Form Electronic book
Author Rischpater, Ray, author
ISBN 1484214447
9781484214442
9781484214435
1484214439
Other Titles Geospatial development in Windows 10 with Bing Maps and C#