PTV xServer .NET is an SDK which adds PTV xServer functionality to .NETclient applications. The new version of the PTV xServer .NET SDK 1.4 comes along with new controls and demo use cases.

Here are the highlights of the new version:

• New interface IToolTips, which can be implemented by layers, to provide textual
  information around a dedicated location (commonly the mouse position). 

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PTV xServer .NET is an SDK which adds xServer functionality to .NET client applications. The new version of the PTV xServer .NET SDK 1.3 comes along with additional controls, improved Visual Studio integration and enhanced demo use cases.

Highlights of the SDK update 1.3:

• PTV xServer .NET

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We were asked how to indicate the direction for a route or a tour using the shape layer. We’ve built a sample for it which demonstrates two options:

1. Use a stroked MapPolyline and animate the StrokeDashOffset property. This technique is also used at the RoutingDemo of the demo center application.…

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A sample which shows how to implement a custom shape type using the example of arrows between locations. We’ve adopted Charles Petzold’s WPF arrow sample  to work with geographic coordinates.

Download application, x-zip-compressed:

• MapArrowDemo (zip file, 202 kilobyte)
• MapArrowDemoSrc (zip file, 208 kilobyte)

For any questions please contact the PTV xServer Support Team.…

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• Create your own rendering configuration (e.g. myRender.ini). You find the description of the format in the PTV xMap Server documenation
• Copy the xmap-ajax-bg.properties and rename it (e.g. xmap-ajax-bg-myprofile.properties)
• Change the entry for the rendering profile in this file, (e.g.

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One of our collegues attended at Microsoft Build Developer Conference and came home with an Acer Iconia W3 and a Surface Pro tablet. So we could test PTV xServer .NET with multi-touch on Windows 8. We’ve added a pinch-zoom function, so multi-touch will be fully supported in the next version.…

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