Bing is a powerful new Decision Engine designed to help consumers accomplish tasks and make faster, more informed decisions. The Bing Application Programming Interface (API) provides developers programmatic access to Bing, offering flexible options for building or enhancing your site or applications. This Web Application Toolkit shows how to take advantage of the Bing API to add search capabilities to your Web site, leveraging the various search results that the Bing API provides, including Web content, images, news and videos, among others. This Web Application Toolkit has several focus areas. From one side, you will explore a set of user controls designed to incorporate Bing search capabilities into your Web site, learning how to retrieve and interpret the different types of Bing results. From another side, you will discover how to use ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery to provide an enhanced and more interactive end user experience, when using the Bing API. Finally, also included in the Toolkit, you will find a sample implementation of a LINQ to Bing provider that allows you run LINQ queries against the Bing API.
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