How to: Get Information About a Geographical Point Using the Bing Geocode Service

• May 22, 2020

This example demonstrates how to manually process received Bing Geocode location information.

• Create a InformationLayer object and add it to the MapControl.Layers collection. Assign the BingGeocodeDataProvider object to the InformationLayer.DataProvider property.
• Handle the BingGeocodeDataProvider.LocationInformationReceived event. In the event handler, process the location information received from Bing Geocode service.

NOTE

If you run the application, and see a window with the following error message: ”The specified Bing Maps key is invalid. To create a developer account, refer to http://www.microsoft.com/maps/developers”, refer to the following tutorial: How to: Get a Bing Maps Key.