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This 200 page revised edition includes the latest details about SQL Server 2014 and the new 3D and Streetside-capable map control for Windows 10 applications. It contains updated chapters on Microsoft Azure and Power Map for Excel plus a new chapter on Bing Maps for Universal Windows. The book tells a story, from beginning to end, of planning and deploying a single geospatial application built using Microsoft technologies from end-to-end.

Readers are expected to have basic familiarity with the fundamentals of developing for Microsoft platforms (some understanding of basic SQL, C sharp, .NET, and WCF); as readers work through the book they will build on their existing skills so that they will be able to deploy geospatial applications for social networking, data collection, enterprise management, or other purposes.

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1. Getting Started with Microsoft and Mapping
2 Painless Hosting with Azure
3. Hosting WCF Services on Azure
4. Geospatial with Azure SQL Database
5. Map Visualization with Bing Maps for the Web
6. Doing More with Bing Maps for the Web
7. Bing Maps for WPF
8. Bing Maps for Universal Windows Apps
9. Doing More with the Bing Maps for Universal Windows Apps
10. Power Map For Excel

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Carmen Au is a Scientist at Microsoft and works on building 3D maps. Before joining Microsoft, she worked in a research lab developing visual navigation mobile device applications. Her work in map navigation has been published in various academic conferences and journals, and has been patented and featured in New Scientist magazine and on the CBS News website. Carmen received her B.Eng, M.Eng, and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at McGill University, her doctoral work in Computer Vision and Augmented Reality.
Ray Rischpater is a senior software engineering manager at Microsoft and an author with over twenty years of experience writing about and developing software for mobile and Internet platforms. During this time, he´s participated in the development of Internet technologies and custom applications for Microsoft Windows, Java ME, Qualcomm BREW, Apple iPhone, Google Android, Palm OS, Apple Newton, and Magic Cap. Presently, he´s employed as a senior scientist at Microsoft building 3D maps.

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