Calculate distance between two Locations with Latitude and Longitude C#

Given that you have two set of Latitude and Longitude values, how do you calculate the distance between them?

For Windows Phone the below method is highly recommended since it used built-in library.

public double GetDistance(double latitude1, double longitude1, double latitude2, double longitude2)
 {
     var firstCordinate = new GeoCoordinate(latitude1, longitude1);
     var secondCordinate = new GeoCoordinate(latitude2, longitude2);
 
     double distance = firstCordinate.GetDistanceTo(secondCordinate);
     return distance;
 }

However if you need the deploy the same function across different platforms such as winrt, WPF and etc, the below code is more preferred since it is platform independent.

The following is known as the Haversine formula and is written in C#. More example of the formula in other language could be found at http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Haversine_formula#C.23

public double Distance(double Latitude1, double Longitude1, double Latitude2, double Longitude2)
 {
     double R = 6371.0;          // R is earth radius.
     double dLat = this.toRadian(Latitude2 - Latitude1);
     double dLon = this.toRadian(Longitude2 - Longitude1);
 
     double a = Math.Sin(dLat / 2) * Math.Sin(dLat / 2) + Math.Cos(this.toRadian(Latitude1)) *   Math.Cos(this.toRadian(Latitude2)) * Math.Sin(dLon / 2) * Math.Sin(dLon / 2);
 
     double c = 2 * Math.Asin(Math.Min(1, Math.Sqrt(a)));
     double d = R * c;
 
     return d;
 }
 
private double toRadian(double val)
{
    return (Math.PI / 180) * val;
}

Do note that there might be a slight different in the result obtained from the above methods due to the different in the R value being used.
Edited 1: Made some changes to the parameter of the second method to make it clearly.

Edited 2: It has come to my attention that GetDistanceTo method in GeoCoordinate uses 6376.5km thus accounting to the different in result between the two methods above. Source: http://iswwwup.com/t/6ae276066577/c-geocoordinate-getdistanceto-using-wrong-radius-for-earth.html