If you’re working on a Windows Phone 7 app that uses the Bing Map control, you might be interested in these little differences between the Desktop version and the Phone version of the map control.

1. The Location type on the Phone has no constructor that takes 2 parameters (the Desktop version does). You’ll have to construct a Location object with the default constructor and then set the Latitude and Longitude fields separately.

2. LocationRect also has no constructor that takes 2 parameters. Here you’ll need to do a little more work and assign the North, West, South and East fields appropriately after constructing a LocationRect object with the default constructor.

3. MapLayer has no static function called SetPosition that lets you map Location objects to something appropriate for a MapLayer. Use the regular instance member MapLayer.AddChild() instead.

With these changes, you can make the Desktop sample on the Bing developer site work on a Windows Phone 7 device.