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Simulate Geo Location in Silverlight Windows Phone 7 emulator

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In this post, Tim Heuer discusses how to simulate geo location in Silverlight WP7 emulator.

In case you haven’t figured it out: Location services (aka, GPS) is not emulated in the developer tools CTP.  As you might expect, this makes it difficult to play around with location-based applications.

The API in Windows Phone 7 revolves around the GeoCoordinateWatcher class. This class is what you would initialize to start listening for events.

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