Setup & Installation
What This Skill Does
Azure Maps SDK for .NET provides location-based services through typed clients: geocoding, reverse geocoding, route directions, map tile rendering, IP geolocation, and weather data. It supports subscription key, Microsoft Entra ID, and SAS token authentication.
Using MapsSearchClient and MapsRoutingClient directly in .NET eliminates the need to parse raw REST responses or manage auth headers manually, and batch operations let you geocode hundreds of addresses in a single call.
When to use it
- Converting a list of customer addresses to coordinates for map display
- Calculating drive times between multiple warehouse and delivery locations using a route matrix
- Fetching map tiles to render a custom interactive map in a .NET application
- Looking up the country of origin for a user's IP address during registration
- Retrieving boundary polygons for a city or administrative district