Why is the Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control so Awesome?!?
Here’s a few reason: • Silverlight! – Silverlight itself is truly a high point with this new control. You can now Plot/Overlay Rich Media Content (Images, Video, and any Silverlight/XAML content you can think of!) over the Map! • Performance! – If you’ve used the Virtual Earth JavaScript Map Control, then you must be familiar with the fact that the Map really starts to slow down when you try to plot something around 300+ Pushpins or a hand full of Polygons with 1000+ points each. With the new Silverlight control you can literally plot THOUSANDS of Pushpins on the Map and you wont render it useless like you would with the previous JavaScript control. Your limit is really only based on the Client Computer that is running the application, and I expect that it’ll probably improve a bit with Silverlight 3’s ability to utilize the local GPU. • No More JavaScript or Browser Inconsistencies! – You no longer need to worry or hassle yourself with JavaScript and making sure it runs/works as expec
