The Windows Phone 7 SDK provides the MarketplaceSearchTask launcher that lets the developers to search Microsoft Marketplace for Windows Phone 7 in the App .
The MarketplaceSearchTask launches the Windows Phone Marketplace client application and then displays the search results .
You must also provide the keyword or search terms via the property SearchTerms .
Searching Marketplace in Windows Phone with MarketplaceSearchTask using C#
The MarketplaceSearchTask is defined in the namespace Microsoft.Phone.Tasks ,so you might need to include this namespace incase if it is not included in the c# code behind .
Just create an instance of MarketplaceSearchTask and set the SearchTerms and then Call the Show Method of the MarketplaceSearchTask .
public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
MarketplaceSearchTask marketplaceSearchTask = new MarketplaceSearchTask();
marketplaceSearchTask.SearchTerms = "Number Converter";
marketplaceSearchTask.Show();
}This will display the MarketPlace Search Screen .
You can also set the ApplicationType so that Search is done for Application or Music with the property ContentType of MarketplaceSearchTask like below .
public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
MarketplaceSearchTask marketplaceSearchTask = new MarketplaceSearchTask();
marketplaceSearchTask.SearchTerms = "Number Converter";
marketplaceSearchTask.ContentType = MarketplaceContentType.Applications;
marketplaceSearchTask.Show();
}The ContentType here is the MarketplaceContentType enum that id again defined in the namespace Microsoft.Phone.Tasks
