WPF DataBinding Bing Maps wpf api

Question

I have spent countless hours reading and researching this topic – and I just can’t seem to get a foothold on it. Here is my scenario:

I write software for a company that provides asset-tracking (with some added features). We currently have an ASP.NET based website using the googlemaps api. So this is what I am comfortable with.

I have now been tasked with writing a WPF application with much of the same functionality but instead using the wpf bing maps api. I have messed around with the map and figured out (non-mvvm way) how to draw custom pushpins, polygons, etc… Now I need to use the databinding features. This is where I just can’t seem to put the two together. Basically what I am trying to do is bind a collection of a custom class that creates a custom pushpin, to a MapControlItem.

The documentation is just a bit too fragmented and abstract for me to grab on to something – or maybe I am just too much of a web developer and really struggling to grasp a concept that is new to me.

Any ideas? Examples?

Answer 1

You're right, the Bing Maps WPF Control API documentation is a joke.

Anyway, you would have to use a MapItemsControl and bind its ItemsSource property to your item collection. The ItemsContainerStyle and/or ItemTemplate properties would define the UI objects that are shown on the map.

You may start reading about Data Binding to Collections.