Live Search for Devices (LS4D)
10/16/2008
With Live Search for Devices (LS4D), you can build search experiences into a navigation application that provides users with up-to-date, relevant, location-aware Points of Interest (POI) that are extracted from the White Pages (residential) or Yellow Pages (commercial) online phone books.
Important
LS4D is supported only for current customers that already have a Device Group ID. Microsoft is no longer accepting new requests for Device Group IDs for LS4D.
In this Section
- Overview of Live Search for Devices
Describes Live Search for Devices (LS4D). This includes Live Search applications, LS4D query types, and LS4D architecture components.
- LS4D OS Design Development
Provides information that helps you build an operating-system (OS) design that provides support for LS4D. This content includes an overview of this feature, its overall architecture, and the LS4D paired identifier.
- LS4D Application Development
Describes the UI design guidelines and LS4D logo guidelines for creating a Live Search application.
- How to Register for the LS4D Service
Describes how you register for the LS4D service so that you can integrate LS4D into your portable navigation devices (PNDs) and build a Live Search application.
- LS4D Registry Settings
Describes the registry keys that are used to configure LS4D.
- LS4D Samples
Describes the sample applications that are provided with LS4D. This includes QueryPhoneBookSample and QueryPhoneBookGuiSample.
- LS4D Reference
Describes the programming elements that are provided in the LS4D API.