Performing local searches with BingMapsTask

The BingMapsTask is similar to the BingMapsDirectionsTask Launcher, except for the difference that BingMapsTask launches the Bing Maps app from the Windows Phone, and can allow it to be pre-populated with a search keyword or mark locations on the map.

We can modify the previous example to use BingMapsTask and populate a search result for Pizza when the hyperlink button Search for Pizza is clicked or touched:

1. 1. Create a copy of our HelloMaps-Pushpin project and rename it HelloMaps-Search.

2. 2. Import the Microsoft.Phone.Tasks namespace.

3. 3. Declare an instance of BingMapsTask in your main class as:

   BingMapsTask myBingMapsTask;
   

4. 4. In the MainPage() constructor, we instantiate myBingMapsTask, center it to a position near Redmond, and finally define the search term as Pizza using the following lines of code:

   // Show Bing Maps and search for Pizza
   myBingMapsTask = new BingMapsTask();
   myBingMapsTask.Center = new GeoCoordinate
   (47.6601, -122.13333);
   myBingMapsTask...