In this simple and small article I will talk about BingMapsTask in Windows Phone which is present in Sytem.Device.Location.

Let's write code

Step 1: Create a Silverlight for Windows Phone project.

Step 2: Add a textbox and a button inside ContentPanel of MainPage.xaml.

<TextBox Height="72" FontSize="22" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,375,0,0" Name="txtSearch" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="460" />

<Button x:Name="bingMap" Margin="0,340,0,0" Height="80" Width="460" Click="bingMap_Click" Content="Search" />

Step 3: Add reference of System.Device.

Step 4: Add below using directive in MainPage.Xaml.cs

using System.Device.Location;

Step 5: Add below method in MainPage.Xaml.cs

private void bingMap_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
   BingMapsTask bingMapsTask = new BingMapsTask();
   bingMapsTask.Center = new GeoCoordinate(15.109, 90.618);
   bingMapsTask.SearchTerm = txtSearch.Text;
   bingMapsTask.ZoomLevel = 2;
   bingMapsTask.Show();
}

Step 6: In above method GeoCoordinate method takes latitude and longitude. You can retrieve current latitude and longitude by following this article

This ends the article of BingMapsTask in Windows Phone.