5.3. Preparing Your Development Environment

Now that you know how to get started with MapPoint Web Service, let's look at how to prepare your development environment to develop MapPoint Web Service applications.

5.3.1. Adding a Web Reference

If you are developing managed code applications using Visual Studio .NET 2003 or later, programming with MapPoint Web Service is fairly straightforward; you can access the MapPoint Web Service by using the Add Web Reference option from the project context menu, as shown in Figure 5-3.