Welcome to the Silverlight SDK for Microsoft Bing. This SDK provides a working sample control for Silverlight 3.0 that implements all the features of two additional assemblies, which together provide a rich set of user experience for consumption of Microsoft Bing search results.
The first component is a reusable framework extension to the Microsoft Silverlight Toolkit. This framework is designed to provide:
- Support controls for the sample Bing component
- A reusable view control toolkit for implementing and using some of the advanced data metaphors shown in the Bing search component.
The second component is the Bing Silverlight service runtime itself - an assembly called Microsoft.Bind.Data. This assembly houses the service proxy for the Bing API, as well as a flexible interface contract for implementing search providers, and a concrete singleton implementation, called SearchEnvironmnent, for use in data binding and consuming results from Bing.
Finally, the SDK contains rich documentation for all the types and classes used in the project.