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Bing Search ADO.NET Provider

Easy-to-use Bing search client enables .NET-based applications to easily search Microsoft Bing and filter search results.

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LINQ provides general-purpose query facilities in .NET Framework 3.0 and above and provides one easy way to programmatically access data through from CData ADO.NET Data Providers. This example uses LINQ to access information from the Bing Search Data Provider.

This article demonstrates how to use LINQ to access Bing Search tables through the CData ADO.NET Data Provider for Bing Search. To do this you will LINQ to Entity Framework, which is used to generate the connection and can be used with any CData ADO.NET Data Providers to access data via LINQ.

See the help documentation for a guide to setting up an EF 6 project to use the provider.

  1. In a new project in Visual Studio, right-click on the project and choose to add a new item. Add an ADO.NET Entity Data Model.
  2. Choose EF Designer from Database and click Next.
  3. Add a new Data Connection, and change your data source type to "CData Bing Search Data Source".

  4. Enter your data source connection information.

    To connect to Bing, set the ApiKey connection property. To obtain the API key, sign into Microsoft Cognitive Services and register for the Bing Search APIs.

    Two API keys are then generated; select either one.

    When querying tables, the SearchTerms parameter must be supplied in the WHERE clause.

    Below is a typical connection string:

    APIKey=MyAPIKey;
  5. If saving your entity connection to App.Config, set an entity name. In this example we are setting BingEntities as our entity connection in App.Config.
  6. Enter a model name and select any tables or views you would like to include in the model.

Using the entity you created, you can now perform select commands. For example:

BingEntities context = new BingEntities(); var videosearchQuery = from videosearch in context.VideoSearch select videosearch; foreach (var result in videosearchQuery) { Console.WriteLine("{0} {1} ", result.Id, result.Title); }

See "LINQ and Entity Framework" chapter in the help documentation for example queries of the supported LINQ.