The staging servers has been deprecated by Microsoft, including their token service. The good news is that it has gotten a lot simpler now. Instead, go to www.bingmapsportal.com sign up, log in and generate a token/app id. This token doesn't expire. Now all you need to do is set the token property on the layer: <bing:TileLayer Token="[your token goes here]" />
You do not need to do anything on the server to generate a token. Also note that staging server is not supported with these new tokens
The staging servers has been deprecated by Microsoft, including their token service. The good news is that it has gotten a lot simpler now. Instead, go to www.bingmapsportal.com sign up, log in and generate a token/app id. This token doesn't expire. Now all you need to do is set the token property on the layer: <bing:TileLayer Token="[your token goes here]" />
You do not need to do anything on the server to generate a token. Also note that staging server is not supported with these new tokens
sorry to dig up this old thread, but using this method, what are the terms? do we need a license for Bing Maps to do this? yes, this would be on a commercial site. i've yet to find a definitive answer to this.
At the front of the bing maps portal it says: For information or inquires about pricing, licensing or volume licensing, contact: maplic@microsoft.com. Also if you go to the bing maps website and click licensing you can find the following: http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/licensing.aspx
😮 funny...the MS rep i spoke to yesterday about this directed me to ESRI since i was accessing Bing Maps via the ESRI Silverlight API Bing Library. that's why i posted here.
in any case, the second link you posted is the answer i was looking for. i wonder why the MS rep didn't just point me in that direction.
I"d rather not get in trouble by suggesting anything licensing related (the only rules I know are the ones governing code :-). However I think you can call your ESRI Sales Rep and work something out. It might actually be cheaper through ESRI.
