I am currently using Bing maps and I want to search for a set of restaurants within a particular area or an address. I see a property called as Radius for SearchOptions, however I do not have a center property inorder to clearly specify my area of interest.
Once I have this, I will then use the SearchService SOAP implementation to get the desired the output. I search extensively the documentation in MSDN, but could not figure any.
Is this possible at all in Bing maps ? If not, what would be the closest/nearest workaround to this ?
You can retrieve the current viewport at any point in time via the BoundingRectangle property. So to allow the user to search for restaurants in the currently visible map area, retrieve the bounding rectangle and send it to your search API.