Working with dotSpatial

I am using the current download of dotSpatial

My system

• I am using a 64-bit Windows 7 system.
• I am using Visual Studio 2010.
• I created a Windows Form Application.

Config issues in Visual Studio

• In the Configuration Manager, I changed it to an x64 application.
• I made sure it was using .net 4.0 framework.

Until I got these settings, everything in the MapWindow tab in the toolbox was greyed out. It was a little frustrating.

After adding the dotSpatial controls and configuring them per the tutorial, I had to add references to other dotSpatial assemblies to get the project to build. VS tells you what you need, so it's not too painful.

After doing these things I was able to follow along with the tutorial, which was written for an earlier version so many names are changed but I was able to stumble through it.