Add a bit of ‘Bing’ to your silverlight maps

As you cannot have missed in the news recently Microsoft has re-branded its search offering to be called “Bing”. This means Virtual Earth is now called Bing Maps for Enterprise. Yesterday Microsoft automatically updated the Ajax Virtual Earth control to use the new Bing logo and you may have wondered why the Silverlight map control was not also updated? The reason is that the logo is a resource in the Silverlight control assembly and is not pointing to an external file. So does that mean we have to wait for a new release of the Bing Silverlight map control before the logo will get changed? Well yes and no, if you want it to be automatically changed you will have to wait for the next release but there is nothing stopping you changing it yourself now by following the steps below.