WP7 Bing Maps 'Invalid Credentials' Error

Question

I\'m trying to use a bing maps control on a windows phone 7 silverlight application and it shows this error overlaid on the map.

Invalid Credentials,

Answer 1

After much travail, I finally discovered that this occurs (at least on desktop SL; not sure about WP7) when the Thread.CurrentUICulture is set to the invariant culture. Be sure it is set to a specific culture (consider also setting Thread.CurrentCulture) in the App.Startup event handler, e.g.

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US");

You do still need AppID set, of course.