Get Status of a Geocode Job

http://spatial.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Dataflows/Geocode/jobID?output=output&key=BingMapsKey

http://spatial.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Dataflows/Geocode/e14b1d9bd65c4b9d99d267bbb8102ccf?key=b1c323ea234b1c323ea234b1c323ea234

class DownloadDetails
{
    public string jobStatus { get; set; }
    public string suceededlink { get; set; }
    public string failedlink { get; set; }

}

//Checks the status of a dataflow job and defines the URLs to use to download results when the job is completed.
//Parameters: 
//   dataflowJobLocation: The URL to use to check status for a job.
//   key: The Bing Maps Key for this job. The same key is used to create the job and download results.  
//Return value: A DownloadDetails object that contains the status of the geocode dataflow job (Completed, Pending, Aborted).
//              When the status is set to Completed, DownloadDetails also contains the links to download the results

static DownloadDetails CheckStatus(string dataflowJobLocation, string key)
{

    DownloadDetails statusDetails = new DownloadDetails();
    statusDetails.jobStatus = "Pending";

    //Build the HTTP Request to get job status
    UriBuilder uriBuilder = new UriBuilder(dataflowJobLocation + @"?key=" + key + "&output=xml");
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uriBuilder.Uri);

    request.Method = "GET";

    //Submit the request and read the response to get job status and to retrieve the links for 
    //  downloading the job results
    //Note: The following conditional statements make use of the fact that the 'Status' field will  
    //  always appear after the 'Link' fields in the HTTP response.
    using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
    {

        if (response.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK)
            throw new Exception ("An HTTP error status code was encountered when checking job status.");

        using (Stream receiveStream = response.GetResponseStream())
        {
            XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(receiveStream);
            while (reader.Read())
            {
                if (reader.IsStartElement())
                {
                    if (reader.Name.Equals("Status"))
                    {
                        //return job status
                        statusDetails.jobStatus = reader.ReadString();

                        return (statusDetails);
                    }
                    else if (reader.Name.Equals("Link"))
                    {
                        //Set the URL location values for retrieving 
                        // successful and failed job results
                        reader.MoveToFirstAttribute();
                        if (reader.Value.Equals("output"))
                        {
                            reader.MoveToNextAttribute();
                            if (reader.Value.Equals("succeeded"))
                            {
                                statusDetails.suceededlink = reader.ReadString();

                            }
                            else if (reader.Value.Equals("failed"))
                            {
                                statusDetails.failedlink = reader.ReadString();
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

        }

    }
    return (statusDetails);
}