Drawing shapes with Windows Phone maps API by symbianyucca

This week’s featured article shows how to draw shape objects on a map in Windows Phone applications. Generally you can add polylines, polygons and MapOverlay objects onto the map, however there are no predefined shapes which could be drawn into the map.

The complete source code for the example illustrated in this article can be found from Windows Phone 8 Maps Examples project, the code used here is implemented for example in MoreMapContent example inside that project.

Please try out Windows Phone 8 Maps Examples project and let us know how you like it.