Solution File For VisualStudio 2008 GarminWebConversionOnly.zip
Several months ago, I bought a Garmin 705 Navigator for my bike. As a gadget junkie, I always want to have the latest stuff. For years, I’ve used Polar Heartrate monitors, but the idea of having maps on my handle bars was just to much to pass up. Since the Garmin’s output is an XML file I figure I have an obligation to unravel it, and what better tool to do this than Microsoft’s LINQ to XML. Many months ago I posted a similar article using LINQ to XML for showing the amount of space that was used on my TIVO by category. This article is not quite an end to end solution like that one. It’s just a first step. What we will show is the steps necessary to convert the TCS file in data objects which we can use in future posts for display with technologies such as windows live maps.
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