How to: Add a Map Control at Design Time

This is a short introductory example, which describes how to add a Map Control to your Silverlight application at design time within Visual Studio.

Run Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, 2012 or 2013. Visual Studio 2013 is used in this topic.
Create a new Silverlight Application project or open an existing one.
Switch to the Window designer.
On the Visual Studio toolbox, expand the DX.14.2: Data & Analytics tab, locate the MapControl item and drop it onto the window.
Right-click the MapControl object and choose the Layout | Reset All option in the context menu. This will stretch the Map control to fill the whole window.

That's all - the MapControl has been added to your application.

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