Windows Phone 7 Map Control with custom layer in offline mode

Question

Hi WP7 mobile passionate developers!

I\'m trying to use the default provided Bing Map control from Windows Phone controls. Specifically I\'m trying to use a custom T

Answer 1

You can find a solution in the blog http://invokeit.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/bing-mapcontrol-offline-tiles-solution-wpdev-wp7dev/

In general, you just need

1. Override GetUri function in TileSource class: return null to let MapLayerTile ignore this tile, and save the tile information to some background worker
2. In the background worker, loading the tile from anywhere, either isolation storage or network, and then manually add it to a MapLayer control.