The Bing Application Programming Interface (API), enables developers to programmatically submit queries to and retrieve results from the Microsoft Bing Search Engine.
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Steps of creating appid for bing search
I am really stuck with the bing search Api. In bing's developer centre I do not find any option to generating Appid. Actually I want to used the bing's search functionality using curl.
When I try to hit the Api it displayed the following error…

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WinRT app with bing translator
I want to use the bing translator in my WinRT app. Found some sample code here: http://codepaste.net/hgrb91, but I get an error with the code 400, because of a bad request.
What can I do?

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Bing Azure Web Search Api: how to avoid query spam from malicious robots?
I'm working on a metasearch site using Bing Azure Web Search Api.
Starting from 2 days (after a month of no problems) I'm facing the problem of avoid to recieve spam searches from malicious bots.
They aren't flooding the site, they query in slow…

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Visual Studio 2010: Unable to add Bing search as a service reference. (DataServiceClientGenerator failed)
I am trying to use the Bing Web search API in Visual Studio 2010.
Following the migration guide, the first step is to add a service reference to my project.
But when I click OK...
Any ideas on what could be wrong?

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Why does this controller double the inserts when I try to archive the results of the Bing Search API?
I'm trying to archive my search results for a term by
Using the Bing API in an async controller
Inserting them into database using Entity Framework
using the Bing API and insert them into a database using entity framework. For whatever reason it…

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Adding text to a Bing Maps Polygon via js
I am trying to solve a problem using Bing maps v7 JS API. My problem is that I need a custom callout or bubble with the beak pointing to a specific position (lat/lon) and the bubble portion containing 2-4 short lines of text which describe that…

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Receiving a 404 when attempting to load a data source with SDS
When attempting to trigger a data load via the directions found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg585130 I run into a 404 response. I've read over it several times and I keep coming back around to the same issue I was wondering if…

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New Bing API Unsupported Authentication in PHP
I have been porting an application at work from the old Bing API to the new one. Having seen several posts about how the new one works in PHP I'm getting Authentication issues with it.
This is the error that is returned by the URL:
Warning:…

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Canadian Postal Codes via Bing Maps API
A bit of a newb here, although I have some experience with Bing Maps.
Im trying to use the Locations API to search for locations (primarily) in Canada. My data request is successful and I get back expected data...except for one thing. Canadian…

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how to get latitude and longitude from Windows 8 Metro Bing Map app
How can I get latitude and longitude from place where I tap/click on the map ?
I found example using GeoCoordinate class but it was sample from Win 7 mobile and this class does not exists in Win 8 Metro
I found the Geocoordinate class but it is…

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Bing API Azure Marketplace: how to know whether there are more results?
I am using the Bing Search API in Windows Azure Marketplace (i.e., the API that replaces the old Bing 2.0 API, that expires on 1st August 2012). The Migration Guide provided by Microsoft states:
If there are no more pages of results, the…

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Windows Azure Bing API using Java
I am trying to shift my Bing API from old one to new Windows Azure Marketplace
My code is like this:
String serviceUrl = "https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Data.ashx/Bing/SearchWeb/
v1/Web?Query='"+ query+"'";
byte[]…

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Bing Image Search API autocorrect feature...?
I am trying to use BING's image search api, but the problem is when I miss-spell something it automatically corrects the and doesn't tell me that "Hey we have auto-corrected your query!" , I want to know if my query has been auto corrected and…

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invalid_request error when getting access token
I'm trying to get my access token for my application, using this URL:
https://datamarket.accesscontrol.windows.net/v2/OAuth2-13?grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=//CLIENT ID//&client_secret=//CLIENT…

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BING API, missing directive or an assembly
I have download the new Bing API C# file and added it to my ASP.NET web site, it works perfectly if uses ASP.NET MVC 2.0 but with simple ASP.NET website it shows an error on this line:
var bingContainer = new Bing.BingSearchContainer(new…

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