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I have been very fortunate this year to be to be involved with Imagine Cup as one of many round judges for Game Design and have been selected as one of the finalist judges for Software Design. After we built our Game Design mashup for Remix we thought that it would be cool to have all the finalists in a Bing Maps App.

I’m pleased to say that the Imagine Cup Map App went live this morning.

After seeing some very cool entries in the Game Design rounds I’m really looking forward to going to Poland and seeing what the Software Design teams have come up with!

If you want to find out more about the Game Design section read Andrew Parson’s post here.

If you want to see what the students have been building then check out the People’s Choice awards where all of the Software Design finalists have a video about their solutions.

 

After our talk at Remix in Melbourne yesterday, I thought I’d post about how to create the Imagine Cup Game Design Round 2 competitor Mash-Up.  Before I created the application I created my own database and table with all the Round 2 contestants and geo-coded their country locations. Since the six finalists have been announced I thought I’d expand it a bit and show those in a different colour. We’ve deployed the final copy to http://imaginecup.soulsolutions.com.au/



I created a Silverlight Application Called Imagine Cup. Then I created a simple Linq to SQL class to get my team table and created a service method call GetTeams

[OperationContract] public ListTeam> GetTeams() { var db = new DataClassesDataContext(); return db.Teams.Where(a => a.Latitude != null).ToList(); } In the ImagineCup Project we add a reference to the following:

Microsoft.Map.MapControl Microsoft.Map.MapControl.Common In the MainPage.xaml we add the mapcontrol namespace:

xmlns:m="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Maps.MapControl;assembly=Microsoft.Maps.MapControl" and add the map control to the grid:

m:Map...

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