Bing Maps Advanced Series Five: Deepearth minimap control for Bing Maps extended Mini Map

Bing Maps Advanced Series Five: Deepearth minimap control for Bing Maps extended Mini Map

The Bing Maps Silverlight control provides us with a simple and convenient development model, but there are a number of drawbacks, such as we want to implement a mini map feature, and there is no such built-in controls for Bing map Silverlight. But there's no need to bother to develop a control like this to implement this function, because in Deepearth we've already provided a control that first looks at the mini map effect in Bing Maps (Http://cn.bing.com/ditu), as shown in the following illustration:

Next look at how to use Deepearth's Mini control (MINIMAP) to develop a mini map for the Silverlight development of Bing Maps. Deepearth's Mini map is very simple to use, just attach the relevant source code to the project or add the related components directly to the project, and use the following example solution: