BingMapDataProvider.Kind Property

Gets or sets a value specifying the type of images to be displayed on a map.

Namespace: DevExpress.Xpf.Map

Assembly: DevExpress.Xpf.Map.v24.1.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Wpf.Map

Declaration

C#

public BingMapKind Kind { get; set; }

VB.NET

Public Property Kind As BingMapKind

Property Value

Type	Description
BingMapKind	A BingMapKind enumeration value.

Available values:

Name	Description	Image
Road	The map shows road schemas.
Area	The map shows photo images of the Earth’s surface.
Hybrid	The map shows a combination of Earth images and road schemas.
RoadLight	The map shows a lighter version of road schemas.
RoadGray	The map shows a grayscale version of road schemas.
RoadDark	The map shows a dark version of road schemas.

Example

This example demonstrates how to connect to the Bing Maps web service using the BingMapDataProvider object.

Important

On May 21, 2024, Microsoft announced that Bing Maps for Enterprise and its API will be discontinued. Azure Maps will be a single unified enterprise mapping platform available from Microsoft.

We are working on API compatible with Azure Maps and expect to ship it with our next major release (v24.2).

If you have an existing license to Bing Maps for Enterprise, you can continue using our existing API. You need to transition to new API until June 30, 2025 (free and basic license) or until June 30, 2028 (enterprise license).

The last date you can get a new license to Bing Maps for Enterprise is June 30, 2025. If you do not have an existing license after that date, you would not be able to use our map controls with Bing Maps or Azure Maps (until we release the new API). During that time, you can use other map providers supported by our controls, such as OpenStreetMap.

Note that if you run this sample as is, you will get a warning message saying that the specified Bing Maps key is invalid. To learn more about Bing Map keys, please refer to the How to: Get a Bing Maps Key tutorial.

View Example

MainWindow.xaml

<Window xmlns:dxm="http://schemas.devexpress.com/winfx/2008/xaml/map"  
        x:Class="Wpf_MapControl_Lesson1.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
    <Grid>
        <dxm:MapControl CenterPoint="45,18" ZoomLevel="4" >
            <dxm:MapControl.MiniMap>
                <dxm:MiniMap Alignment="TopRight">
                    <dxm:MiniMap.Behavior>
                        <dxm:FixedMiniMapBehavior CenterPoint="45, 18"/>
                    </dxm:MiniMap.Behavior>
                    <dxm:MiniMapImageTilesLayer>
                        <dxm:BingMapDataProvider BingKey="YOUR BING KEY"/>
                    </dxm:MiniMapImageTilesLayer>
                </dxm:MiniMap>
            </dxm:MapControl.MiniMap>
            <dxm:ImageLayer>
                <dxm:ImageLayer.DataProvider>
                    <dxm:BingMapDataProvider BingKey="YOUR BING KEY"/>
                </dxm:ImageLayer.DataProvider>
            </dxm:ImageLayer>
        </dxm:MapControl>
    </Grid>
</Window>

Related GitHub Examples

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XAML

wpf-map-get-routes-to-the-destination-point-with-the-bing-map-route-data-service/CS/CalculateRoutesFromMajorRoads/MainWindow.xaml#L39

<dxm:ImageTilesLayer.DataProvider>
    <dxm:BingMapDataProvider Kind="Road"
                             BingKey="{Binding Source={StaticResource bingKey}}"/>