Self Contained Bing Maps Mobile Application Sample?

Question

Hello - I'm trying to get going on a Bing Maps mobile applcation. The instructions here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd483215.aspx

reference that you can create a self contained application. Are there any samples / instructions for this that someone could point me at? Most of the samples I can find seem to be similar to what is referenced in the MSDN article above (i.e. multi-tier approach).

Thanks,
nick.

Answer 1

I haven't seen any self contained mobile apps for Windows Mobile that use the web services. The main reason is probably because there is a lot of data that gets returned from the web services that you will probably will not need to pass on the user. If you connect directly to the web services from a mobile application you will find a performance issue as the users mobile devices will need to download more information than they need. Creating your own service in between Bing and the client is pretty standard as you are able to process the data on the server which is usually faster than doing it on the mobile device.

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