Main Features

• May 22, 2020
• 2 minutes to read

This document outlines main features and capabilities of the DXMap Suite for Silverlight.

Data Providers

The DevExpress Map control ships with support for two online data providers: Bing Maps and OpenStreetMap.

Bing Maps example:

OpenStreetMap example:

For more information on these providers, see Data Providers.

User Interface Elements

The DXMap control provides a number of UI elements that empower your end-users to scroll, zoom in and out, as well as see detailed information about the current view. Note that you can optionally show or hide any of these elements and customize their appearance.

The following navigation elements are included.

• Scroll Buttons
• Zoom Trackbar
• Coordinates Panel
• Scale Panel
• Search Panel

For more information, refer to Navigation Elements.

Multiple Layers

The DevExpress Map control can simultaneously show an unlimited number of map layers. Each layer displays information either as images (Image Tile Layer) or as vector elements (Vector Layer).

This allows you to show shapes above image tiles or show maps from different data providers on a single map view.

For more information, refer to Layers.

Support for Shapefiles

DXMap provides support for the Shapefile format. Note that our map control is capable of loading both shape contours and supplementary information from shapefiles. With this capability, you can display map regions painted in different colors and also show any other additional information in tooltips.

In addition, the DXMap control supports shape highlighting and hit-testing. These two features enable end-users to select any shape on a map and show additional information for it.

For more information, refer to Vector Formats.

Vector Layer Features

The DXMap control ships with the following built-in vector elements.

• Line
• Rectangle
• Ellipse
• Polyline
• Polygon
• Path
• Dot
• Pushpin
• Custom Element

You can also display any Visual Element on a map and therefore draw anything you require. For example, the following image demonstrates a flight tracking radar using the DXMap control.

For more information, refer to Vector Elements.