Microsoft announced that the Bing iPhone and Mac software developer kit SDK is available for download at Bings CodePlex.

It is open source under the Microsoft Public License MSPL. The SDK is a Cocoa Framework, which means Mac and iPhone developers can easily integrate Bing search results into their applications. Microsoft says it was designed to remove the headache of manually having to parse XML or JSON in order to communicate with the Bing API. Microsoft says the SDK provides The ability to easily query Bing from within your Cocoa or Cocoa Touch application.