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The April refresh of the Windows Phone 7 CTP was released the other day, and for some reason the BingMapsTask has been removed from this release and im assuming that this had led to the Bing Maps Silverlight control not working. Ive asked a few people on the dev team about a work around, but Ive yet to receive a response. Im guessing that it would simply be a case of adding a new capability to the WMAppManifest.xml file. ***UPDATE*** My assumption that the removal of the BingMapsTask being removed prevented the Silverlight control from working was incorrect. As Ryan has stated below, it was merely the issue of the Authenticode Signed Assemblies failing to load, as detailed in Tim Heur's post As Ryan correctly states, this workaround needs to be applied to Microsoft.Maps.MapControl.dll and System.Windows.Browser, but it also needs applying to Microsoft.Maps.MapControl.Common Apologies if my initial post misled anyone, it wasnt my intention.

In an earlier blog , I produced a very basic application for Windows Phone 7 that allowed joggers to track their progress of a training session on a Bing Map. The application simply plotted a map polyline whenever there was a change in the device’s location, with the changes in the devices location being raised as events by the GeoCoordinateWatcher class, which is part of the Windows Phone 7 API. Now although the user’s training session was plotted on the map, with the start and end points being identified with pushpins on the map, the application didn’t indicate to the user the total distance travelled, so to obtain this I decided to use the Route Service, which is one of the Bing Maps Web Services. Route Service As the name suggests, the route service is an API used to calculate routes between designated start and end points. In order to use the Route service, a service reference to http://dev.virtualearth.net/webservices/v1/routeservice/routeservice.svc?wsdl needs to b

Recently Microsoft released the CTP toolkit for Windows Phone 7, available here , and I decided to produce a small application which uses the location services functionality of the phone, as well as the Silverlight Bing Maps user control. The application is aimed at joggers/runners, and simply allows users to start and end a running session and view their progress on a map. At the end of their session, the relevant start and end points are displayed on the map as pins, and the total time of the workout session along with total distance travelled is also displayed. Location Services Location services within Windows Phone 7 provides a location based api, which allows consumers to track their current geocoordinates, as well as the status of their location based device. It is worth noting that location services is not just GPS tracking, as the service can also determine a devices location from wireless networks, assisted gps etc. One of the challenges of utilising Location S