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Weatherbug coming to Windows Phone 7 with Bing Maps Silverlight control

Weatherbug coming to Windows Phone 7 with Bing Maps Silverlight control

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Microsoft has posted a short interview with the Weathrebug team to discuss the upcoming version of the website which will be powered by Bing Maps silverlight control to render maps and weather data layers in realtime and how this is being ported to Windows Phone 7 with minimum code changes. As you probably already know, Bing Maps (in Silverlight) is fully integrate into Windows Phone 7 so building mapping application (or application that required mapping data or map rendering) is now simple and easy unlike previous versions of Windows Mobile (or even on other platforms) where in-house or third-party APIs (like Google Maps) had to be used. Check out the video below:

Source: Channel9 via WME & Mobilitydigest

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