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COM-ADD
May 23, 2024Copper Contributor
Migrating from “Bing Maps” to “Azure Maps”.
Hello, I have just received your email announcing the end of support for “Bing Maps” on June 30, 2025. This service is being replaced by “Azure Maps”. Currently I use the C# object: Windows.U...
Ricky_Brundritt
Jul 15, 2024Copper Contributor
COM-ADD Correct, to use the Azure Maps Web SDK in a XAML app you would need to create a web page and load it into a WebView. Using WebView2 is recommended as there are a lot of issues with the original WebView, such as limited WebGL support and poor performance. With WebView2 the performance of the Azure Maps Web SDK appears to be as good or better than using a native SDK.
If you are developing/updating a UWP app, I have a simple code sample here: https://github.com/rbrundritt/SimpleUwpAzureMaps
I'm also working creating a Maui library wrapper around the Azure Maps Web SDK and hope to have that online in the next month or two.