Build a Simple VCL Application for Bing Search Results

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Bing Search FireDAC Components

Easy-to-use Bing search client enables Delphi & C++Builder Apps to easily search Microsoft Bing and filter search results.

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How to build a simple VCL Application to view Bing Search results in RAD Studio using the CData FireDAC Components for Bing Search.

Embarcadero RAD Studio provides a development environment for Delphi and C++Builder applications. With the CData FireDAC Components for Bing Search, you gain access to live Bing Search results within RAD Studio, abstracting the data into tables, views, and stored procedures that can be used to retrieve Bing Search results. This article will walk through connecting to Bing Search and creating a simple VCL application with the Form Designer.

Creating a VCL Application for Bing Search Results

The following instructions show how to use the Form Designer to create a simple VCL Forms application that shows the basic FireDAC objects needed to connect to Bing Search from any application.

The following example populates a TDBGrid control.

  1. Create a new VCL Forms Application.
  2. Drop a TFDPhysBingDriverLink and TFDConnection object onto the form.

  3. Double-click the TFDConnection object. The FireDAC Connection Editor is displayed. Select "CData.Bing" in the DriverId menu and configure the connection properties.

    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.

  4. Drop a TFDQuery object onto the form and set the properties below:

    • Connection - Set this property to the TFDConnection object, if this object is not already specified.
    • SQL - Click the button in the SQL property and enter a query.
    • Active - Set this property to true.
  5. Drop a TDataSource object onto the form and set the following property:

    • DataSet - In the menu for this property, select the name of the TFDQuery object.
  6. Drop a TDBGrid control onto the form and set the following property:

    • DataSource - Select the name of the TDataSource.

  7. Drop a TFDGUIxWaitCursor onto the form. This is required to avoid a run-time error.

You now have an executable application that displays the results of the SQL Query set in the TFDQuery object.