Need helping calling Live Search API from VS 2008

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  I'm also working with Visual Studio 2008.
  
  I just recreated a simple new website and added the web reference to http://api.search.live.net/search.wsdl?AppID=YourAppId  and then proceeded to put a using net.live.search.api; statement with my other using statements in the codebehind file and I had access to the LiveSearchService class with intellisense.
  
  Did I make a mistake by adding a web reference instead of a service reference?
  I'm a newbie, thanks.
  

  Saturday, November 29, 2008 12:59 AM
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  aj_newbie got it right. Just use a web reference instead of a service reference.

   

  HTH

   

  --Alessandro

   

   

  Sunday, November 30, 2008 1:45 AM
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  In my web project, I see a "Add Web Service", but in the Silverlight project it doesn't seem to be offered. I found this MSDN article: "Breaking Changes in Silverlight 2". It says:

   

  In Visual Studio, Use "Add Service Reference" Instead of "Add Web Reference"

  Users will need to use Add Service Reference instead of Add Web Reference to consume services from Silverlight.

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc189007(vs.95).aspx

   

   

  Sunday, November 30, 2008 11:57 PM
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  There are two solutions, both simple.

   

  Solution 1: use an interface more malleable than SOAP (for example JSON) and serialize the response in an object using the JSON Serializer (code left for when my son does not want to play).

   

  Solution 2: realize that a WCF service is is a superset of a SOAP webservice, and find out that binding to a service through its WSDL is exactly the same as binding to a web service with one more operation to do.

   

  A quick cheatsheet of how to do it:

   

  1) add a service reference to http://api.search.live.net/search.wsdl?appid=your appid

  2) select LiveSearchService (NOT the port type)

  3) name it LiveSearchServiceReference

  4) in your code file add

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  using .LiveSearchServiceReference; //C#

   

   

  or

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  Imports .LiveSearchServiceReference 'VB.net

   

   

  5) where you need to instantiate your service do (C#)

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  LiveSearchPortTypeClient client = new LiveSearchPortTypeClient();

  client.Open();

  SearchResponse searchResponse;

  searchResponse = client.Search(searchRequest);

   

   

  or (VB.net)

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  Dim client As New LiveSearchPortTypeClient()

  client.Open()

  Dim searchResponse As SearchResponse

  searchResponse = client.Search(searchRequest)

   

   

  From here on everything is exactly how it was before.

   

  HTH

   

  --Alessandro

   

  Monday, December 1, 2008 3:19 AM
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  For some reason the publishing system removed a piece of my code sample.

   

  The using and import statement should be prefixed by your application's namespace, as in

   

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  using [YourNamespace].LiveSearchServiceReference;

   

   

   

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  Imports [YourNamespace].LiveSearchServiceReference

   

   

  Monday, December 1, 2008 3:26 AM
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  Thanks! That worked great with one limitation. (Silverlight doesn't seem to support "Open" or "Search". But "OpenAsync" and "SearchAysnc" work fine).

   

  The key is

  LiveSearchPortTypeClient client = new LiveSearchPortTypeClient();

  I don't see any documentation on this so thanks much for giving the answer.

   

  - Carl

  Monday, December 1, 2008 5:32 AM
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  Hm, this doesn't work fine for me to:
  
  

  searchResponse = client.SearchAsync(sr);
  Cannot implicitly convert type 'void' to 'WebServices.LiveSearch.SearchResponse'
  

  
  Any ideas?

  Monday, April 6, 2009 12:44 PM
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  am having the same prb, using Silverlight
  
  Following is my code
  
  LiveSearchPortTypeClient client = new LiveSearchPortTypeClient();
              client.OpenAsync();
              SearchRequest request = BuildRequest();
              SearchResponse searchResponse;
              //searchResponse = client.Search(request);
             
             searchResponse = client.SearchAsync(request);
  
  I get the above mentioned error "Error 3 Cannot implicitly convert type 'void' to 'SI.LiveSearchServiceRef.SearchResponse' 
  
  how do I get rid of this....

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  Clatonh

  Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:54 PM
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  I didn't find out what to do with this error, but at least my code is working now. Maybe this helps you:
  
  

   

  LiveSearchPortTypeClient client = new LiveSearchPortTypeClient(); 
  client.OpenAsync();
  
  
  client.SearchCompleted += new EventHandler<SearchCompletedEventArgs>(proxy_SearchCompleted);
  client.SearchAsync(request);
  
  (...)
  
  void proxy_SearchCompleted(object sender, SearchCompletedEventArgs e)
  {
      displayItem.ItemsSource = e.Result.(...)
  }

   

   

  Friday, April 24, 2009 6:37 AM