{"id":6978,"date":"2012-12-28T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/translation\/2012\/12\/28\/building-an-asp-net-web-app-with-the-microsoft-translator-widget-and-api\/"},"modified":"2019-08-06T11:01:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T18:01:32","slug":"building-an-asp-net-web-app-with-the-microsoft-translator-widget-and-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2012\/12\/28\/building-an-asp-net-web-app-with-the-microsoft-translator-widget-and-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Building an ASP.NET Web App with the Microsoft Translator Widget and API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Note:\u00a0<\/strong>The Translator Web Widget was retired on July 31, 2019. Learn how you can translate your website with Microsoft Translator on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/translator\/business\/web\/\">Microsoft Translator business site<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Translator offers&nbsp;great tools for web developers. With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsofttranslator.com\/widget\/\">Microsoft Translator Widget<\/a>&nbsp;you can add translation to all of the content of your site, giving the user control over what language they read your site in.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/MSDNBlogsFS\/prod.evol.blogs.msdn.com\/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles\/00\/00\/00\/91\/16\/metablogapi\/8103.clip_image014_610F89D0.png\" alt=\"\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/datamarket.azure.com\/dataset\/1899a118-d202-492c-aa16-ba21c33c06cb\">Microsoft Translator API<\/a>&nbsp;you can get access to our service allowing you to translate any user generated or other text. In this walkthrough you&rsquo;ll learn how to use both of these, adding a widget to the master page of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asp.net\/downloads\">ASP.NET site<\/a>, as well as how to sign up for the translator API and use it in your ASP.NET code.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/MSDNBlogsFS\/prod.evol.blogs.msdn.com\/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles\/00\/00\/00\/91\/16\/metablogapi\/2161.clip_image001_6621ED4C.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The walkthrough takes you through everything you need to know, including where and how to get the free Visual Studio tools for web developers, signing up for the API, generating a widget and writing the code that you need to access the API.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the complete walk through here: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/translation\/p\/webapptranslator.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/translation\/p\/webapptranslator.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note:\u00a0The Translator Web Widget was retired on July 31, 2019. 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