Welcome to Map Suite™ Vehicle Tracking Starter Kit from ThinkGeo.If you're looking to put together a Web-based vehicle tracking application with Map Suite Web Edition, the Vehicle Tracking Starter Kit is a great place to begin. Designed to be easy to use and filled with common tracking features, the kit demonstrates best practices through fully-commented source code in C# and VB.NET. Kick-start your tracking project now!

In this article, we will discuss how to install Map Suite Vehicle Tracking Starter Kit on your machine and upgrade your development environment.

• Minimum 400 MHz processor
• Minimum 256 MB RAM
• Microsoft Windows NT4/2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/7/2008 Server
• Visual Studio 2008/2010/Express
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1
• .NET Framework 3.5 or higher
• Supports Visual Basic .NET, C#

To process ahead with the installation of Map Suite Vehicle Tracking Starter Kit, you should have .Net Framework 3.5 or higher. Please get it from Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.

Install Visual Studio or Visual Studio Express To develop your application with Map Suite Component, the Visual Studio or Visual Studio Express is necessary.

Install Visual Studio 2008 SP1 To develop your application with Map Suite Component, the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is necessary too.

Download and run the Map Suite Vehicle Tracking Starter Kit.

NOTE: Please make sure you have an internet connection while running this installer as it needs to register on line.

Your Installation will look like this as following:

Click Next → Agree License Agreement → You will get installation progress screen:

Now, your development environment is ready and you can have GIS featured travel with installed samples or create any application you want with Map Suite SDK, which can be found in “[Installation|Folder]\ ThinkGeo\Map Suite Vehicle Tracking Samples\”.