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After playing with Google Translate for some time I wondered why Microsoft didn't have anything like it. After a few moments of thought I remembered that they do have something like it. The Bing webservice does translation (The very first article I ever wrote on Windows Phone was using the Bing web services, which were called Live services at the time).  Microsoft has also has made the translation functionality made the translate functionality available at MicrosoftTranslator.com/Tools.

The web serice is extremely easy to use.  So I decided to make a very simple Windows Phone application that made use of it. In the two part video below I construct the interface. The actual construction time on the code was 15 minutes (One could easily do it in ten minutes, but I code slower when I am talking about it at the same time).  My goal in this video was just to use the service and get things up and running (I've thrown user experience to the wind here). In a follow up post I'm going to address user experience and add the functionality that will make the program talk.

Since the video is more than ten minutes I've had to seperate it into two videos. You can see both of them below.

Tags: Windows Phone