Custom pushpin icon for Windows Store Apps with Bing Maps and C#

While the Bing Maps SDK is out of Release Preview and made final along with the release of Windows 8, i find that the documentation is still lacking quite a bit. Here is a couple of examples of how you can customize the pushpin control by changing the displayed image overlay, without having to implement a seperate Control. Custom icon for pushpin using XAML and C# Add the following to the resources (e.g. in your XAML for the Page containing the Bing Maps Control): ...

November 4, 2012 · admin

NetMeter tool

I have always been using a small tool to monitor my network usage for various reasons, but recently my favourite decided to take the step away from being a free tool. Instead of tracking down another, I decided to use this opportunity to start a new project of my own, and use it as an opportunity to take a look at WPF for the first time. Currently it simply displays your network usage, but should only be considered an appetizer in its current state – I got some ideas lined up to give this some more sweet features! ...

January 13, 2010 · admin

Dijkstra's algorithm in C#

I had the pleasure of working with this algorithm one year ago during a project on route planning. Recently I encountered this algorithm again during a course, and decided to do a small implementation of this algorithm along with a graphical interface to use it. Use it for anything you want. It finds the shortest path from a starting point to all nodes in a graph, but keeps track of how to get there, so if you want to use it for the shortest path between 2 points, simply follow the previous node located in *path *from the destination point. ...

October 25, 2009 · admin