How to get data from a website to my app based on users request

Question

I am developing apps for windows 8 and i am a noob at this one and i got struck up with this problem.

My app contains a search box the user on entering a query will get the response based on his requirements.

but i really don't know how to send the requests to this website and get responses.

Answer 1

have you tried this ?

WinJS.xhr function

Answer 2

Hi

1 Use WinJS.xhr function to get response from the search api.

2 create your datasource and bind it to you data binding control.

Here is a tutorial about how to implements a datasource that will fetch images from Bing's image search feature.

Please refer to :

How to create a custom data source (Windows Store apps using JavaScript and HTML)