Microsoft Mappoint 2009 – working is VS2008, no new features for dev though..
In my previous post I had a few problems getting the ActiveX/COM object available to use from within Visual Studio. Thankfully, it turned out it wasn’t just me, but anyone using the European version of the product.
Installing the North American version of the software alongside the European version, however, did the trick. Using Windows 7 beta (and therefore, probably Vista and XP) the control now shows up perfectly in Visual Studio 2008.
The good news ends there – Microsoft have not made any of the new features available in the desktop version of Mappoint 2009 available programmatically – which effectively means that this is basically a Map update to any application developed on Mappoint 2004, and nothing more.
This means I won’t be using it . but if you’re interested, I’ve constructed the class diagram using VS2008 to show all the available classes, properties, methods etc. (click to view full size)
