First pass through Windows Live™ Search Web Service API

So far, I've done nothing too impressive with this.  I got sick of SSRS, I guess the Miami Vice Bikini girl just got me distracted.  Anyway, as most of my family and co-workers know, I've been working on the CuckooBot for a while now, much to their dismay.  Something about Response bots and Women (like my Mom and Girlfriend) just don't mix.  So the Cuckoobot is getting close to full completion and I'll be releasing him into the wild shortly.  

CuckooBotTablet is the next incarnation and well, he's still in his egg as far as development goes. It's too late to get really into it but the goal is to speak a series of words and criteria into the tablet, go to work, and return home to accurate results.  I'm very behind schedule on this so far... but With enough boredom and ephedrine+, anything's possibly.

Ok, just a little to get you through the hurdles...

If you're running VISTA and Windows Firewall, this secure by annoyance feature will prompt you each time you make the call to the service - trust me, go into control panel and just open the port - otherwise this annoyance will keep bothering you over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over

MSNSearchService CuckooBotTablet = new MSNSearchService();
SearchRequest LiveRequest = new SearchRequest();
SourceRequest[] LiveReqs = new SourceRequest[1];
LiveReqs[0]=new SourceRequest();
LiveReqs[0].Source = SourceType.Web;
LiveRequest.AppID = "YOU_NEED_YOUR_OWN"
LiveRequest.CultureInfo = "en-US"
LiveRequest.SafeSearch = SafeSearchOptions.Off;
LiveRequest.Requests = LiveReqs;
LiveRequest.Query = "inlineASP.com" //ATM
SearchResponse LiveResults = CuckooBotTablet.Search(LiveRequest);
Result[] LiveOutput = LiveResults.Responses[0].Results;
foreach (Result singleResult in LiveOutput)
{
    Debug.WriteLine(singleResult.Description);
    Debug.WriteLine(singleResult.Title);
    Debug.WriteLine(singleResult.Summary);
}

 The next thing you need to do is create an application id and replace it in the AppID field....directions to pull that off are provided here.

Also, be careful with the SafeSearchOptions.  I'd recommend that they be set to Strict unless you are specifically looking for something you know is a little out there.  As I've found too many times with this sort of thing, be careful what you ask for, b/c it usually overdelivers. You'd be amazed at how seemingly innocuous words like CamelToe or ATM can return such inappropriate stuff.

Be congnizant to the SourceType Enumeration Value you use as well. In this case, I used SourceType.Web. There are many more, with amazingly pragmatic and useful ones like .Spelling.

These are the main issues that will cramp your style up front.  vNext of the CuckooBotTablet will search images and return them.  Considering alll the new found fans I have lately that care sooooo much about the content of my posts, I'll make triple sure SafeSearch is on - wouldn't want to offend any of the "Inappropriate for community site" robots or impede them from taking their marching orders.

I'm going off to bed now and letting a few of the other functions run. Hopefully results will be impressive (and will no doubt wolf down my bandwidth) and I'll have something to report back shortly.