Creating Bing Maps Developer Account

Go to Bing Maps Portal Site and click on Create link.
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Click on "Create or View Keys" after creating/login to bingmapsportal site.

Provide the application name and the url.

Use the generated Credentials in developing the applications.

For additional resources, you can check the following link

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How to rename all the file extensions in a folder

Open a command/cmd window
navigate to the folder
type the following command
rename *.originalextension *.newextension
Example: To cange all jpg file extensions to gif extensions. You can use the following command.
rename *.jpg *.gif
Modify the values originalextension and newextension as required.
You can save this command in a batch file and execute in the respective folders.

How to open a Command Prompt from the current folder

When working on batch files, most of the people faced the problem of openning a command prompt and changing to the current directory.

The command prompt can be opened from any folder, and when openning the command prompt displays the current folder. To achieve this follow the following steps

1. Open Windows Explorer
2. Go to Tools -->Folder Options in the menu
3. In the Folder Options dialog go to "File Types" tab
4. Select the "Folder" under FileTypes
5. Click on Advanced button
6. In the "Edit File Type" dialog click on "New" button
7. In the "Action" text box enter " Command Prompt"
8. In the "Application used to perform action" text box enter C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
9. Click ok
10. open the Windows folder you want to open the command prompt
11. Right click on that folder, you can see the Command Prompt in the popup menu.
12. Click on "Command Prompt" it will open the command window with the current folder.