Question

Has anyone had any luck passing from Silverlight to Bing or Google a url parameter based string that will open search results in a browser. I have been using the Bing API and been able to search and return results within the client and I have also done this using JSON and passing values to the Google API. However if you want to just send a query string to either service and have the results returned via a browser result list I have not found this to be possible. What I am trying to see if it is possible to pass a term “gocart” to Google or Bing as a url (http:www.bing.com/query?gocart) and it return in a new browser window results of the search term. From my initial research both search engines appear to prevent unauthorized queries via URL, I was curious if anyone found it different.

thanks

Answer 1

I have made a hyperlink class:

private class HyperlinkButtonWrapper : HyperlinkButton
{
    public void OpenURL(string navigateUri)
    {
        OpenURL(new Uri(navigateUri, UriKind.Absolute));
    }

    public void OpenURL(Uri navigateUri)
    {
        base.NavigateUri = navigateUri;
        base.TargetName = "_blank";
        base.OnClick();
    }
}

Then use it like this:

private void ButtonSearch_Click(object sender, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    var hyperlinkwrapper = new HyperlinkButtonWrapper();
    hyperlinkwrapper.OpenURL(@"http://www.google.com/#q=gocart");

}

I found that on this blog