How to use Bing API for searching for a particular stores using Bing Map

Question

I am new to Windows Phone App development. I am developing app for windows phone 8. I want to add map function in my app.

But I searched the stack overflow, I can see that I have to use REST service. So please can anyone help me how to use REST service and get the location based data using Bing Map.

Answer 1

You need to use the Bing Maps API detailed here

Ultimately though you are going to want to look at how to find a location by query on MSDN. These apis are easy to use but from experience I would use google maps API.

This is an example call

http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations/locationQuery?includeNeighborhood=includeNeighborhood&maxResults=maxResults&include=queryParse&key=BingMapsKey

You would need to replace the variables with your data. For example the bingkey needs to be given to you by microsoft here