Thread: MapPoint 2006 Integration with VB.net

You definitely can work with MapPoint from VB.Net or C#, but you're right that it isn't the most straightforward, or well-documented, thing out there.

The easiest way to get started is to reference the Mappoint 2006 dll in your project. Add the object to the toolbox in Visual Studio, and drop the control on a form.

Here are a few samples to get you started (some are in C#, at least partially, but the languages are fairly close):

http://blogs.msdn.com/cthota/archive...22/515992.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305200/en-us

Note: there are some references in these samples to older versions of MapPoint, but the concepts are very close.

Well I have looked at both of those and I think I am more confused now than ever.... I will need to look at them in more detail. The second link just shows how to Interact with MapPoint and the first on I will need to look at a lot more and just play with it some.

I have the control on the form but I cannot display the map... Argh this is frustrating that there is no real documentation on this.... Typical M$!

Thanks,

-Axel

Check mp2kmag.com, there's a lot of good info in their forums and articles. If you're still stymied, let me know and I'll pass you some code (I don't have it on this PC).

Actually, typical of MSFT there's lots of documentation. It's just a matter of knowing where to look. If you do anything with MSFT technology and don't know your way around MSDN, learn now. I see many people spending lots of money on books or training (or consultants at work) to get information that's freely available in the MSDN Library.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/mappoint/

Thanks for the info guys.

BTW, I use the MSDN but I typically find more useful information elswhere on the internet. It has been a while since I have been in VB.net and I am at a complete loss because everthing I have tried so far has not worked at all. And I can't say that I know that much about C# in order to convert the code samples that were linked to above.

That and I think my brain is about to Blue Screen for the day!

I stumbled across mp2kmag.com earlier in my search but I didn't find anything for what I was looking for.

I figured the part that I need to drag the control onto the form and that was about it. Every bit of code that I have seen and tried for whatever reason will not bring up the map...

RickS, I would be interested in looking at that code. It may help....

Thanks again...

I'm not using a PC with a complier so I won't guarantee this will work but it should be all you need to pull up a map. You'll use this on a form that you've added the MP control to (the control should be named AxMappointControl1). Let me know if you need more...

Code:

Dim objMap As MapPoint.Map

Private Sub GPSForm_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

  'Open a North American map
  AxMappointControl1.NewMap(MapPoint.GeoMapRegion.geoMapNorthAmerica)

  'Set the map object to the current map
  objMap = AxMappointControl1.ActiveMap

End Sub

I finally figured that out at about 4am this morning. But thank you for the code. I knew it was something simple. It just kept hiding from me.

If you need more help, let me know...I coded my own FE in VB.NET also and have done several iterations of GPS in it using MP (though I'm using IG3 currently since it does a couple things that I can't do in MP).