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Google Maps for Windows Phone 7 using Bing Map Control

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3 Feb 2011CPOL3 min read 173K   6.1K   46  
This article covers the way we could use Google Map using the Map Control shipped by Microsoft with Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<Deployment xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsphone/2009/deployment" AppPlatformVersion="7.0">
  <App xmlns="" ProductID="{0277cc52-888b-4593-a28d-4cff818e81e7}" Title="googlemaps" RuntimeType="Silverlight" Version="1.0.0.0" Genre="apps.normal"  Author="googlemaps author" Description="Sample description" Publisher="googlemaps">
    <IconPath IsRelative="true" IsResource="false">ApplicationIcon.png</IconPath>
    <Capabilities>
      <Capability Name="ID_CAP_GAMERSERVICES"/>
      <Capability Name="ID_CAP_IDENTITY_DEVICE"/>
      <Capability Name="ID_CAP_IDENTITY_USER"/>
      <Capability Name="ID_CAP_LOCATION"/>
      <Capability Name="ID_CAP_MEDIALIB"/>
      <Capability Name="ID_CAP_MICROPHONE"/>
      <Capability Name="ID_CAP_NETWORKING"/>
      <Capability Name="ID_CAP_PHONEDIALER"/>
      <Capability Name="ID_CAP_PUSH_NOTIFICATION"/>
      <Capability Name="ID_CAP_SENSORS"/>
      <Capability Name="ID_CAP_WEBBROWSERCOMPONENT"/>
    </Capabilities>
    <Tasks>
      <DefaultTask  Name ="_default" NavigationPage="MainPage.xaml"/>
    </Tasks>
    <Tokens>
      <PrimaryToken TokenID="googlemapsToken" TaskName="_default">
        <TemplateType5>
          <BackgroundImageURI IsRelative="true" IsResource="false">Background.png</BackgroundImageURI>
          <Count>0</Count>
          <Title>googlemaps</Title>
        </TemplateType5>
      </PrimaryToken>
    </Tokens>
  </App>
</Deployment>

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Written By
Student Unikrew Solutions
Pakistan Pakistan
A student of Computer Sciences at NUCES-FAST karachi, Pakistan.

Having interst in mostly Microsoft related tools and technologies like :

.Net Framework
Expresison Blend
Windows Phone 7
SQL Server
Asp.net
WPF
Silverlight

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