Getting "The service method is not found error" in Bing Maps - asp.net

Question

We are using geocoding service to get geocodeAddress (latitude/longitude) but we are getting the "The service method is not found" error. Below are my code.
public static double[] GeocodeAddress(string address, string virtualearthKey)
{
net.virtualearth.dev.GeocodeRequest geocodeRequest = new net.virtualearth.dev.GeocodeRequest
{
// Set the credentials using a valid Bing Maps key
Credentials = new net.virtualearth.dev.Credentials { ApplicationId = virtualearthKey },
// Set the full address query
Query = address
};
// Set the options to only return high confidence results
net.virtualearth.dev.ConfidenceFilter[] filters = new net.virtualearth.dev.ConfidenceFilter[1];
filters[0] = new net.virtualearth.dev.ConfidenceFilter
{
MinimumConfidence = net.virtualearth.dev.Confidence.High
};
// Add the filters to the options
net.virtualearth.dev.GeocodeOptions geocodeOptions = new net.virtualearth.dev.GeocodeOptions { Filters = filters };
geocodeRequest.Options = geocodeOptions;
// Make the geocode request
net.virtualearth.dev.GeocodeService geocodeService = new net.virtualearth.dev.GeocodeService();
net.virtualearth.dev.GeocodeResponse geocodeResponse = geocodeService.Geocode(geocodeRequest);
if (geocodeResponse.Results.Length > 0)
{
return new[] { geocodeResponse.Results[0].Locations[0].Latitude, geocodeResponse.Results[0].Locations[0].Longitude };
}
return new double[] { };
} // GeocodeAddress
Key is used for URL for bing map geocode service in we.config
<add key="net.virtualearth.dev.GeocodeService" value="http://dev.virtualearth.net/webservices/v1/geocodeservice/GeocodeService.svc" />

Answer 1

Looks like you are trying to use the old Virtual Earth SOAP Services which were deprecated and shut down last year. These were replaced by the Bing Maps REST services 7 or 8 years ago. Since you are working in .NET, take a look at the Bing Maps .NET REST Toolkit. It makes it easy to use the REST services in .NET. There is a NuGet package available as well. You can find details here: https://github.com/Microsoft/BingMapsRESTToolkit
Once you have the NuGet package added to your project, you can geocode like this:
//Create a request.
var request = new GeocodeRequest()
{
Query = "New York, NY",
IncludeIso2 = true,
IncludeNeighborhood = true,
MaxResults = 25,
BingMapsKey = "YOUR_BING_MAPS_KEY"
};
//Execute the request.
var response = await request.Execute();
if(response != null &&
response.ResourceSets != null &&
response.ResourceSets.Length > 0 &&
response.ResourceSets[0].Resources != null &&
response.ResourceSets[0].Resources.Length > 0)
{
var result = response.ResourceSets[0].Resources[0] as BingMapsRESTToolkit.Location;
//Do something with the result.
}