Plotting events on Bing Maps

In Chapter 3, Using Maps in your Windows Phone App, we saw how to use Bing Maps and pushpins within our apps. Now, let us use that knowledge to incorporate maps within our "Hello Events" franchise:

1. 1. Create a new Silverlight for Windows Phone project and Name it HelloEvents-Maps.

2. 2. Copy the code and UI from our previous HelloEvents-Categories example. We will make some changes in the EventPage.xaml and EventPage.xaml.cs files to show maps and events plotted on the maps.

3. 3. Add a button and a map control to your EventPage.xaml file just below the ListBox control. Your ContentPanel grid should now contain the following lines of code:

   <Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,30">
   <ProgressBar Name="loadingBar" Margin="0,251,0,263"
   IsIndeterminate="true"></ProgressBar>
   <ListBox Height="555" HorizontalAlignment="Left"
   Margin="2,6,0,0" Name="myEventsList"VerticalAlignment="Top"
   Width="448"></ListBox>
   <Button Content...