Using Bing Translation in .NET

Sometimes it can be convenient to translate text into your applications. For this Microsoft offers a (free) translation service, Microsoft Translator. To use this service it takes only a few quick steps.

1. Go to https://www.bing.com/developers and create an account. You will get an ID to use the service.

2. Create a new project with Visual Studio

3. Add a reference to au service. The address of the service is: https://api.microsofttranslator.com/V2/Soap.svc

   Add a service reference to the project

4. Use the service in your application!

LanguageServiceClient service = new LanguageServiceClient();
const string text = "Texte à traduire en anglais.";
const string appId = "Votre AppId";
Console.WriteLine(service.Translate(appId, text, "fr", "en"));

For details of the functions offered by the service: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512435(v=MSDN.10).aspx

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