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Bing Maps Web Control SDK retirement

Bing Maps Web Control SDK is deprecated and will be retired. Free (Basic) account customers can continue to use Bing Maps Web Control SDK until June 30th, 2025. Enterprise account customers can continue to use Bing Maps Web Control SDK until June 30th, 2028. To avoid service disruptions, all implementations using Bing Maps Web Control SDK will need to be updated to use Azure Maps Web SDK by the retirement date that applies to your Bing Maps for Enterprise account type. For detailed migration guidance, see Migrate from Bing Maps Web Control SDK and Migrate Bing Maps Enterprise applications to Azure Maps with GitHub Copilot.

Azure Maps is Microsoft's next-generation maps and geospatial services for developers. Azure Maps has many of the same features as Bing Maps for Enterprise, and more. To get started with Azure Maps, create a free Azure subscription and an Azure Maps account. For more information about azure Maps, see Azure Maps Documentation. For migration guidance, see Bing Maps Migration Overview.

The following articles cover more detailed discussions and advanced techniques for working with the Bing Maps V8 Map Control.

Article Description
Code Optimizations in V8 Provides an overview of code optimizations that have been added to Bing Maps V8. These will help reduce the amount of code you need to write to write your application.
Cross Platform Bing Maps V8 apps Provides insights in how to get Bing Maps V8 to work across multiple platforms such as Android, iOS, UWP, WPF, and WinForms apps
Map Keyboard Shortcuts Provides details on the various keyboard shortcut available for interacting with the map.
Vector Map Labels Provides insights into how the vector map label functionality works in V8.
zIndexing in Bing Maps V8 Provides information on how zIndexing works in Bing Maps V8