What's new in Map Suite 4.0?

A great many things! As always, our News and Announcements forum contains the complete, detailed change logs for each of our products, but here are some of the standout features we've incorporated into Map Suite 4.0:

Map Suite Services Edition (Features Common to All Map Suite Editions)

• Support for Google Static Maps version 2
• Simple support for Yahoo Maps
• Support for heat map layers
• Support for 100% managed proj Projection Library
• Improved GeoCache performance
• New GraticuleLineLayer
• Direct support for Map Shapes
• Numerous bug fixes
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Map Suite Desktop Edition

• Support and sample applications for Visual Studio 2010
• Increased panning performance
• Improved WPF drawing performance on large screens
• Numerous bug fixes
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Map Suite Web Edition

• Support and sample applications for Visual Studio 2010
• Animated panning
• Measurement tools
• Clustering Marker Strategy
• New events for draggable markers (BeforeDrag, Dragging, EndDrag)
• New key modifier options for TrackZoom (Shift, Ctrl, etc.)
• Support for sub-levels in ContextMenus
• Added OSMOverlay with support for Open Street Map servers
• Exposed more client functionality accessible via JavaScript
• Ability to change the title of the "OverlaySwitcher" panel
• Numerous bug fixes
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Map Suite Silverlight Edition

• Support for Visual Studio 2010 and Blend3
• Support for Bing Maps in multithreaded mode
• Support for RestrictExtent
• Improved support for IIS7 in Integrated Mode
• Filtering support for GetFeaturesByColumnValue in WFSFeatureLayer
• Numerous bug fixes
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Map Suite Geocoder

• New plugin: IPMatchingPlugin
• New StreetMatchingPlugin property to get the closest street number
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Map Suite Routing Extension

• Support for Visual Studio 2010
• Routing support for the Travelling Salesman Problem with fixed start and end points
• More sample applications for new scenarios
• Numerous bug fixes
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