Bing Maps Silverlight Heading Property or Map.SetView still not working in 2012

Question

Does anyone have a working example of being able to set the Map.Heading property or use the Map.SetView(location, zoom, HEADING)?  

I can't find any recent information on this and it has consumed too much time.  

Yes, I know it isn't 2012, but hopefully it will help anyone else looking for recent information.

Answer 1

The purpose being to rotate the map.  I have created Silverlight rotation which works for additional map layer but doesn't seem to want to work with the Bing map tiles.  I'm trying to avoid rotating the entire control.

Answer 2

Can anybody help with this? Has anyone successfully used the Heading property or SetView method?  

 

Has anyone even tried?

 

Thanks.

Answer 3

From memory, the Heading property works pretty much as documented... note that you can't simply rotate the map tiles to an abitrary angle though - the heading's got to be one of 0, 90, 180, or 270 - representing the four cardinal compass directions, as described here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.maps.mapcontrol.core.mapbase.heading.aspx

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Answer 4

Actually, I take my last post back. I thought I'd gotten the Heading property to work in the past but, trying it again now, it doesn't seem to have any effect...

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Answer 5

You can easily use a RotateTransform on the map to achieve this.

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Answer 6

I wrote an article about this a few weeks ago that I meant to link to here:

http://alastaira.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/rotating-bing-maps/

Essentially, it appears that "Heading" only works to set the N, S, E, W aspect when using a birdseye (oblique) view - to rotate 2d tiles you have to use a RotateTransform (SL), or a CSS3 transform (AJAX).

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