title: WPF DataBinding Bing Maps wpf api
body: <p>I have spent countless hours reading and researching this topic – and I just can’t seem to get a foothold on it. Here is my scenario:</p>
  
  <p>I write software for a company that provides asset-tracking (with some added features).  We currently have an ASP.NET based website using the googlemaps api. So this is what I am comfortable with.</p>
  
  <p>I have now been tasked with writing a WPF application with much of the same functionality but instead using the wpf bing maps api. 
  I have messed around with the map and figured out (non-mvvm way) how to draw custom pushpins, polygons, etc… Now I need to use the databinding features. This is where I just can’t seem to put the two together. Basically what I am trying to do is bind a collection of a custom class that creates a custom pushpin, to a MapControlItem.</p>
  
  <p>The documentation is just a bit too fragmented and abstract for me to grab on to something – or maybe I am just too much of a web developer and really struggling to grasp a concept that is new to me.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas? Examples?</p>