MapControl Class

A Map Control to display raster and vector maps. Supports both popular map services (Bing Maps and OpenStreetMap) and custom map data servers inside your corporate network.

Namespace: DevExpress.Xpf.Map

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

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Wpf.Map

public class MapControl :
    Control,
    IWeakEventListener,
    IMapView,
    IMapViewCore,
    ICoordinateSystemProvider,
    IPrintableControl,
    IInvalidKeyPanelHolder,
    IUnitConverterProvider,
    IMapCommandExecutor,
    IItemVisibilityCalculatorProvider,
    ISupportZooming,
    INavigationOptionsProvider

Public Class MapControl
    Inherits Control
    Implements IWeakEventListener,
               IMapView,
               IMapViewCore,
               ICoordinateSystemProvider,
               IPrintableControl,
               IInvalidKeyPanelHolder,
               IUnitConverterProvider,
               IMapCommandExecutor,
               IItemVisibilityCalculatorProvider,
               ISupportZooming,
               INavigationOptionsProvider

The following members return MapControl objects:

Remarks

The DevExpress Map control provides all the functionality required to embed popular map services into your WPF applications. You are free to choose from any existing map data resource (like Bing Maps or OpenStreetMap) or establish your own map data server inside your corporate network.

In addition to using raster map images, you can also utilize vector elements of any shape, stored either in Shapefiles or other formats. The control has built-in navigation elements, supports animated zooming, element highlighting and much more.

The following image demonstrates a MapControl.

main-features-bing

To get acquainted with using the MapControl, please refer to the Getting Started section.

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>

The following code snippets (auto-collected from DevExpress Examples) contain references to the MapControl class.

Note

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XAML

wpf-map-process-search-with-a-custom-search-panel/CS/MapControl_SearchPanel/MainWindow.xaml#L26

</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<dxm:MapControl Grid.Column="0">
    <dxm:ImageTilesLayer>

how-to-implement-a-custom-map-data-provider-e3680/CS/MainWindow.xaml#L7

<Grid>
    <dxc:MapControl>
        <dxc:ImageLayer x:Name="imageLayer"/>

wpf-map-programmatically-search-with-the-bing-map-search-service/CS/DXMapExample/MainWindow.xaml#L20

</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<dxm:MapControl x:Name="mapControl"
                ShowSearchPanel="False">

wpf-map-load-vector-cartesian-data/CS/MapLesson2/MainWindow.xaml#L8

<Grid>
    <dxm:MapControl MaxZoomLevel="3"
                    Background="White">

wpf-map-use-ray-casting-algorithm-to-check-if-point-is-inside-polygon/CS/DXMapShapeFile1/MainWindow.xaml#L6

<Grid>
    <dxm:MapControl Name="mapControl" >
        <dxm:VectorLayer Name="vectorLayer" MouseDoubleClick="vLayer_MouseDoubleClick" EnableSelection="False"  >