Radmap auto connection

[Civelle]

Hi.

We have implemented the radmap control in our application. Everything is fine except for we would like to prevent the control to automatically connect to Bing when loading the page. We built our code base on the example provided on your site and the XAML look like this:

         <telerik:RadMap x:Name="rmMap" Grid.Column="0" ZoomLevel="3" Center="62.832999, -95.9139999"  ZoomChanged="rmMap_ZoomChanged" CenterChanged="rmMap_CenterChanged" Visibility="Collapsed" Canvas.ZIndex="1">
             <telerikMap:InformationLayer Name="informationLayer">
                 <telerikMap:InformationLayer.ItemTemplate>
                     <DataTemplate>
                         <Border Background="#7FFFFFFF" BorderThickness="1" Padding="2,2,2,2">
                             <ToolTipService.ToolTip>
                                 <ToolTip Content="{Binding Path=Title}" />
                             </ToolTipService.ToolTip>
                             <telerikMap:MapLayer.HotSpot>
                                 <telerikMap:HotSpot X="0.5" Y="0.5" />
                             </telerikMap:MapLayer.HotSpot>
                             <Grid>
                                 <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                     <ColumnDefinition Width="14" />
                                     <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
                                 </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                 <Path Fill="Red">
                                     <Path.Data>
                                         <GeometryGroup>
                                             <EllipseGeometry Center="7,7" RadiusX="3" RadiusY="3" />
                                             <EllipseGeometry Center="7,7" RadiusX="7" RadiusY="7" />
                                         </GeometryGroup>
                                     </Path.Data>
                                 </Path>
                             </Grid>
                         </Border>
                     </DataTemplate>
                 </telerikMap:InformationLayer.ItemTemplate>
                </telerikMap:InformationLayer>
             <telerikMap:InformationLayer Name="informationLayer2" />
            </telerik:RadMap>

So when we load the UserControl that contains RadMap, it automatically connects to BING Map Provider (this is my understanding) to provide the map as per the specifications above. Is there a way to still include the radmap in our UserControl and have it connect to BING only at the time of calling the 'SearchProvider.SearchAsync(request)' for the first time in our code?

The reason we want to do this is to limit the number of 'hits' to BING


Civelle.

[Andrey]

Hi Civelle,

If I understand your question correctly, you would like to have map region empty when your application starts (don’t show any map tiles). When user performs some operation (search something) map should start show tiles from Bing. Is it correct? If it is so, then you can use EmptyProvider when your application starts and then replace it with BingMapProvider when necessary. For example:

<telerik:RadMap x:Name="radMap"
        Center="37.7847107699891, -122.421295514088"
        ZoomLevel="8">
    <telerik:RadMap.Provider>
        <telerik:EmptyProvider />
    </telerik:RadMap.Provider>
</telerik:RadMap>

private void DoSearch(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    this.bingProvider = new BingMapProvider("You_Bing_Map_ID");
    this.radMap.Provider = bingProvider;

    // Do other things
}

Sincerely yours,
Andrey Murzov
the Telerik team

[Civelle]

Hi Andrey.

Thanks for your suggestion: I think that this is exactly what we are looking for. I will try this as soon as I get a chance to get back working on the maps.


Civelle.