Loading KML File

[Michael Semanson]

I must be missing something because this would seem to be a pretty basic feature for the Map control.

How do you load a KML file and display it on the map control?

The demo that imports the European KML file uses the following statement:

            // loading the eu.kml file
            StreamResourceInfo streamInfo = Application.GetResourceStream(
                new Uri("/Examples.Map;component/Resources/eu.kml", UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute));

But I'm not familiar with URI syntax and I can't tell what the statement is doing, or more specifically, what the values within the quotes represent.

What is Examples.Map?  Is that a namespace or another external file?  

And where is eu.kml located as referenced above?  Is it in a subdirectory of the project called component\Resources?

Thanks

[Ves]

Hello Michael,

Examples.Map is the name of the assembly and the part after "component/" i.e. "Resources/eu.kml" is the path where the resource is located. That is -- the eu.kml file is located in "Resources" folder in the map examples project. The name of the project is either Map.CS or Map.VB, usually found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Telerik\RadControls for Silverlight Q1 2010\Demos\Map folder.

You can find more details about loading resource files in Silverlight in this article.

Best regards,
Ves
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[Michael Semanson]

Thanks.  I'm new to Telerik and didn't realize the demo projects were installed with the development tools.