ASP.NET MVC, Bing API, Bing Maps, and Flickr
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1. ASP.NET MVC forces you to use a clean separation between presentation and data retrieval, which makes it easier for creating an application with interchangeable parts. Of course, on needs to keep this in mind while creating the applications.
2. Using the Bing API, formerly known as Live Search API, to retrieve Bing search results. The API will allow you to search images, instant answers, mobile web, news, phonebook, related searches, spell checks, translations, videos, and your typical web results. In our example, we will be searching the phonebook for farmers markets.
3. Visit http://www.bing.com/developers to create an AppID to use the BingAPI. You can also download the SDK from here which is basically a document full of useful examples.
4. Nikhil Kothari created BLinq (yea, I know it was already taken) which is also known as Linq to Bing Search APIs. It is a little overkill for my example so I don’t use it. You can read more about it here: http://www.nikhilk.net/BLinq-LINQ-over-Bing.aspx.
5. The top results for the Bing Map control will take you to the commercial version. I really don’t want to mess with that, so here’s a link to the free version. http://tinyurl.com/bmapsdk.