Windows Store Apps and Bing Maps
May 14, 2013 Leave a comment
I started creating a RoadAlert client application to be used on RT tablets. One of the first stumbling blocks was using Bing maps. I downloaded the SDK easily. However, when I went to add the maps to my project, I got this:
What I had to do was change the project deployment FROM Any CPU to ARM so that the references would resolve:
I was then able to get the reference:
The problem is then when I ran the app on my developer workstation:
What I needed to do was the change the project type to x64 so that it would run locally. Then, when I created the package, I only targeted ARM and then it ran great on my tablet.