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GoogleMap Control 4.0 released

This release comes with a lot of new features like: StreetView; Reverse Geocoding; better AddressNotFound support; MarkerStyle for general way to manage the “Look&Feel” of markers; markers InfoWindow extensions and improvements; extended event handling; improved disposing and persistence; etc.

New Features
(For a full list check out GoogleMap Control 4.0 beta as well)
  • MarkerStyle inner property of GoogleMap control is now available to master in more general way the "Look&Feel" of all the markers.
    • It will for example simplify the way to set custom icon to all the markers in one place.
  • InfoContent now provides a default implementation of container control for marker's info window content
    • The InfoContent behaves just like a control container. You can use its Controls property to add whatever controls you like to the marker's InfoWindow content.
    • Check out the online video
  • StreetView support added
    • IsStreetView property to switch the GoogleMap control to StreetView;
    • StreetViewMode property to switch between Panorama and Overlay mode
    • StreetViewPanoID property to point to a DOM element by ID, where StreetView to be shown on map click when Overlay mode is selected, if this is not set, the control will render out an DIV to be use just bellow the google map;
    • Check out this online sample page StreetView
  • GoogleMapView is extended with the new map types: Satellite3D, MapMakerNormal, MapMakerHybrid
Changes
(For a full list check out GoogleMap Control 4.0 beta as well)
  • JSON improvements and improved Markers persistence during the post back
  • InfoWindowContent property of GoogleMarker was renamed to InfoWindowTemplate
  • ImageUrl property of GoogleMarker was renamed to IconUrl;
ASP.NET 2.0 Issues
  • SampleWebSite2.0 was added for running the GoogleMap control samples under ASP.NET 2.0

Posted 04-29-2009 17:49 by velio
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