WP7Contrib: Criterion Factory - calculating a Route

Carrying on my series about the Criterion Factory in the WP7Contrib I thought I'd show the how we do a route search. We support multiple Criterion Factory methods for creating criterion these all depend on how much information you have available.Calculating a route using Bing Maps REST API can be tricky and confusing there are over 10 optional parameters which you could configure to get a route between 2 locations. As with other sets of method on...

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Geo-location on WP7 - don't trust the first value returned

Rich & I have been working on app which makes heavy use of geo-location information provided by the GeoCoordinateWatcher class on the WP7 platform. As the documentation on MSDN states this class exposes the Windows Phone location services. The GeoCoordinateWatcher class implements the INotifyPropertyChanged interface and all the events generated will be fired on the UI thread allowing you to easily bind the class to the UI, but as we...

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How many pins can Bing Maps handle in a WP7 app - part 1

part2 - http://awkwardcoder.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-many-pins-can-bing-maps-handle-in.htmlpart3 - http://awkwardcoder.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-many-pins-can-bing-maps-handle-in.htmlRich & I've been working on a WP7 app recently which annotates the Bing Maps control with push pins. These pins represent a point of interest - a reported crime. We've been using the UK crime stats which are provided free of charge, all you have to do is...

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Attaching multiple sqlite databases in WP7

Following on from my previous post Rich & I are developing an app which has 2 versions - one has only a single sqlite database but the other could use multiple sqlite databases to store the data - in effect the data is partitioned (sharded) alphabetically for the second version.Our existing code used for the single database version uses a Simple ORM to do our data access. The primary reason being the code is 2 lines...

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