Bing Service

Question

I am just curious has anyone had any luck with setting up connecting to bing services, when they dont' start with the sample that is provided on the resource centers?

I have downloaded that and got BING Map and Geocoder working. However when I tried to move it to a pre-existing application I can't get it to add the web Service Reference.

So I followed the steps here
http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/silverlight/help/Using_VEtokenservice.htmhttp://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/silverlight/help/Using_VEtokenservice.htm

And can't get step 2 to work. VS2008 either doesn't prompt me for a password or prompts me 3 times then nothing. I have logged into Bing's developer centre and tested the password and they say it is valid. But yet I continue to get the following error.

There was an error downloading 'http://staging.common.virtualearth.net/find-30/common.asmx?wsdl'.
The request failed with HTTP status 400: Bad Request.
There was an error downloading 'http://staging.common.virtualearth.net/find-30/common.asmx?wsdl/$metadata'.
The request failed with HTTP status 4

I am using the staging url with out the s, although I have tried it with the s also.

Also I am using a service reference then goign to web reference to add it.

Is it me or is something up with VS? I have seen other posts on Microsoft sites but never saw a solution....

SomeGISGuy · Answer

I suggest you contact Microsoft Bing and ask them. I don't know their licensing well enough. Their contact information is at the front page for their portal.
 
But you are correct that you shouldn't be using Staging anymore.

HeatherHainsworth · Answer

Morten,

I did get it to work with just a token but question for you does this mean that you cannot use staging at all anymore? As before you could build a number of applications using staging, now you have up to 5 you can build using production only. Is that right?

nicogis · Answer