How do I programmatically clear the SearchBox control history in Windows 8.1?

Question

Windows 8.1 introduced a new control: SearchBox. It has a feature that remembers user searches which is good, but I want to allow the user to clear the search history. How do I implement that in code?

Answer 1

There is a ClearHistory method on the SearchSuggestionManager class that clears all search history contexts.

Code in C#:

var manager = new Windows.ApplicationModel.Search.Core.SearchSuggestionManager();
manager.ClearHistory();