Bing Search Api localizatoin issues?

Question

I cannot pass the correct format for double to the search api. Longitue and altitude are 2 double values that can be passed to the api. However in my case it seems that these values get localized and the required dot as number seperator gets subtituted by a comma and then the eintire query fails.

I have asked thie issue here already: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithcsharp/thread/a60ecb34-33b3-4778-b477-8633f100f66c

How can I get this working?

Answer 1

Hi,

Can you try to append two double values to the search url directly (I mean double number to string directly and append them to the url). You can values from pos.Coordinate.Latitude and convert this value to string and append to url directly, not use localsetings value.

Thanks,

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QinDian Tang
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Answer 2

Hi Qin Dian Tang,

Sorry for this post. I cannot find you from Lync and I just moved one case to this forum.

Please check it.

Regards,

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Barry Wang
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Answer 3

When I try to take the Bing search container and add manually

query.AddQueryOption("Latitude", Double.Parse(localSettings.Values["latitude"].ToString()));
query.AddQueryOption("Longitude", Double.Parse(localSettings.Values["longitude"].ToString()));

It shows the same behaviour of not formatting the input for its own use. When I expand and inspect the values, I the usual error message which is:

Data = {System.Collections.ListDictionaryInternal}

Message = "Unable to load resources for resource file \"System.Data.Services.Client\" in package "."

Source = "mscorlib"

StackTrace = "   at System.Resources.ResourceManager.GetString(String name, CultureInfo culture)\r\n   at System.Data.Services.Client.TextRes.GetString(String name)\r\n   at System.Data.Services.Client.Strings.get_DataServiceQuery_EnumerationNotSupported()\r\n   at Syst...

TargetSite = {System.String GetString(System.String, System.Globalization.CultureInfo)}

When I dig further at some level there shows additionally:

[System.InvalidOperationException] = {"Method may only be called on a Type for which Type.IsGenericParameter is true."}

As ResourceManager is involved it seems like some localization/culture issue. However it is clear that once I manually call the api through the browser and append latitude and longitude with dots manually, or remove langitude and longitude completely, the call works just fine and returns the requested values.

So somewhere the it seems these values get mishandled.