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GMap.NET - Great Maps for Windows Forms and Presentation

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:23:00 -0500

GMap.NET is a powerful, free, cross platform, Open Source .NET control. It enables the use of routing, geocoding, and maps from Google, Yahoo!, OpenStreet in Windows Forms and Presentation, and supports caching!

Step by Step Guide to Delicious OAuth API

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:19:00 -0500

Learn how to use Delicious OAuth API in your .NET projects with an example

Yahoo! Finance Managed

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:06:00 -0500

The service that Yahoo! Finance provides to download financial data is nice, but you have to know the right tags and symbols and how to build the URL to use it. This library will undertake this annoying task for you.

Using the Amazon Web Service SDK for .NET

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:00:00 -0600

The richest set of cloud computing services comes from a little e-commerce company known as Amazon.com. Developers can access the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform using numerous tools including the .NET platform.Amazon.com is a major player in the cloud computing space and has numerous services available to developers. In late 2009, Amazon released the AWS SDK for .NET. This article will demonstrate using the AWS SDK to create a custom backup service using the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

Accessing Images On Flickr From An ASP.NET Website Using The Flickr.Net Library

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:00:00 -0500

This article explores the open source Flickr API library called Flickr.Net, which was created by Sam Judson and was used in my aforementioned project. Specifically, well look at how to create an ASP.NET website that displays a smattering of randomly selected pictures from a particular Flickr user, along with how to show a specific pictures comments (if any exist). And the complete code in both Visual Basic and C# is available for download at the end of this article.

Programming Twittering with Visual Basic

Mon, 04 May 2009 20:43:27 -0500

Discover how easy it is to call the Twitter API from your .NET applications.

Windows Live Delegated APIs

Fri, 30 May 2008 17:42:51 -0500

The Windows Live APIs now expose a standard authentication technology that lets your Web application access Windows Live user data easily, yet keeps control in the hands of users.

United States Postal Service (USPS) Web Tools Wrapper

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:10:00 -0500

United States Postal Service (USPS) Web Tools Wrapper is a .NET library you can use for address validation, retrieving rates and YES even printing label.

A wrapper for using .NET to submit credit card transactions via the Authorize gateway

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:53:00 -0500

Recently, I had to write a website that processes credit card transactions, and I was shocked to find that Authorize, one of the larger payment gateways, did not provide any sort of .NET API. They support HTTP Posting of a string that defines the transaction, and they send back a string that describes the result. So, I wrote a wrapper class for use in our website, and decided to offer it here for anyone else that may need it..

Introduction to the Live Search API

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Have you ever wanted to implement search capabilities on your own Web site but didn't want to implement the logic and deal with issues such as storage and indexing?The Live Search team now offers two different ways to utilize Search on your site: using the Live Search Box or using the Windows Live Search API.