Bing Maps SDKs

The Bing Maps SDKs provide documentation for the APIs that power Bing Maps, an online mapping service that enables users to search, discover, explore, plan, and share information about specific locations. By using traditional road maps, labeled aerial photo views, low-angle high-resolution aerial photos, and proximity searching capabilities, Bing Maps provides unique opportunities for developers to incorporate both location and local search features into their Web applications.

The Bing Maps SDKs include:

  • The Bing Maps Ajax Control SDK 6.2, which consists of a complete set of reference topics for the Bing Maps AJAX Control API. An Interactive SDK is also available at http://www.microsoft.com/maps/isdk/ajax. The Interactive SDK offers hands-on, task-based demonstrations of features available in the version 6.2 map control release, complete with code samples and links back to the reference SDK.

  • The Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK, version 1.0, which contains a complete set of reference topics for the Bing Maps Silverlight Control. You can find the Interactive Silverlight SDK at http://www.microsoft.com/maps/isdk/silverlight.

  • The Bing Maps Web Services SDK, Version 1.0, which includes reference and other topics for the Bing Maps Web Services programming interface (API). Bing Maps Web Services is a set of programmable SOAP services that allow you to integrate maps and imagery, driving directions, and other location features into your Web application.

  • The Bing Maps Articles, which contains a variety of technical topics and coding techniques for the Bing Maps developer.

  • For information about Bing Maps geographic coverage, see the Bing Maps Geographic Coverage topic.

  • The Microsoft MapPoint Web Service SDK, which allows developers to integrate high-quality maps, driving directions, distance calculations, proximity searches, and other location intelligence into your applications, business processes, and Web sites.

Information about Microsoft's customer identification requirements can be found in the Bing Maps Web Services SDK, Version 1.0 or the Implementing Customer Identification article found in Bing Maps Articles.

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