WinRT bing maps not working

Question

I downloaded bing maps for windows rt 8.1. I created a new project in visual studio and I added the bing maps reference. But every time I try to add a map I get an error that says A reference to bing maps has been added.

And each time I try to add the map in the designer I get an error: a reference to bing maps has been added. But this shouldn't happen because I already added the references.

Answer 1

Be sure to set the active solution platform of your application. Go to Build -> Configuration Manager and change the platform to x86. Because Bing Maps makes use of the C++ Runtime you have to specify the target platform. This is documented here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn456475.aspx