Hi chaps, I've been researching how to interact with the MSN messenger / Live messenger service programmatically and I can't find any real documentation on this. The documentation for the Live services only seem to implement in Javascript (they're here: http://dev.live.com/Messenger/) It would be possible to reverse engineer this API t...
What weather services have APIs? Out of the handful or so, which ones are easiest to tie into? Do they use "raw" HTTP requests or web services? Are there wrapper APIs for Python, .NET, Java, etc. Which have you had the best experience with? ...
I'm having an interesting problem implementing a global keyboard hook. I wrote a dll which is used to set the hook and then an application (Delphi) which loads the dll and processes the results of the hook. This was done this afternoon on my PC at work and after some testing I figured it was working 100%. I've just tested the same app...
I'd like to do some 3D programming in C# but I'm not sure where to start looking for an API. If I were doing this in C++ I know the options are OpenGL and DirectX, but I'm not sure what the options are for C#. I don't necessarily want to program a whole game, just manipulate a few objects. ...
I am looking for a managed code library/API or samples that let me write and read cabinet (.cab) files. There is a CAB SDK here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310618 but the DLL that ships with it only supports native code. ...
The Search Protocol Reference at http://code.google.com/apis/searchappliance/documentation/52/xml_reference.html doesn't mention anything about fp param. Yet, it seems to show up sometimes. Does anyone know what it does? ...
The company that I work for develops a C++ application to manage service businesses (dispatching, GPS tracking, CRM, etc). The problem is that the system is a little too limited. Being a relatively small company, we'd like to broaden the horizons and add some more modern features such as a web interface and plugins for various other appl...
I am leading a team of fellow student programmers this semester on a long-term project (long enough that I may graduate before it's done). I've worked with ICD's in an internship, but not everyone on the team has had this experience, and I can't show them the documents I worked with due to a non-disclosure agreement. Can anyone give ...
Where can I download a chm file containing .NET 3.5 API Documentation? It seems is not available in msdn! ...
I'd like to write a python library to wrap a REST-style API offered by a particular Web service. Does anyone know of any good learning resources for such work, preferably aimed at intermediate Python programmers? I'd like a good article on the subject, but I'd settle for nice, clear code examples. CLARIFICATION: What I'm looking to do ...
In Vista and Windows 7, there are many folders are shortcuts, like "C:\Users\Administrator\Application Data", use FindFileFirst serial API can enumerate all files under the folder, however we can NOT open it in Windows Explorer, I will also get error while call CreateFile to open the folder or the file enumerated by FindFileFirst serial ...
I am searching for a multi-lingual keyboard api or plugin which I can embed in my web app. If the plugin in jquery then its better, caz I am already using jQuery library. I want keyboard like (or better) than the keyboard that www.shabdkosh.com has. On shabdkosh.com home page, there is a link "key" with the search button, click on the l...
Hi, I am looking for an API what I can convert XML files into XSD files. In my project I am using that API's JDOM and Xerces. And I can edit my attributes and namespace, but I can't transform a xml in xsd. I have no idea to how I can start. Any suggestion? ...
Does anyone know if there is some parameter available for programmatic search on yahoo allowing to restrict results so only links to files of specific type will be returned (like PDF for example)? It's possible to do that in GUI, but how to make it happen through API? I'd very much appreciate a sample code in Python, but any other solut...
I'm Making a small on-line clock (both for fun and to learn a bit more of php and javascript) started it because i actualy need an alarm clock and this would be easier than buying one (don't ask) Now i wanted to know one thing, i know it's impossible to turn on/off you're computer from a browser, but a friend asked me if i could do him ...
OK, this is minefield, but trying to understand why one would pick .NET (or equivalently Mono) for cross-platform development over the other toolkit is difficult without experience in the both. For programmers who may have used both, what features would be missed or desired? Conversely, what would a user of one find missing from the...
I have done web programming through PHP, so I know the basics of HTML, CSS, and sessions. Nontheless, there's probably a lot of concepts and theory behind web development which I'm probably missing since my original approach came from knowing a language, not a platform itself. Where does one go to learn the practices and general theory,...
Such as: Sealed Methods you might have liked to extend Exceptions thrown are more vague than is helpful Elimination of Connected Content which was a major feature in MCMS 2002 HTML is stripped from fields when stored and returned. No easy option to work around this problem Creating an SPWeb takes an eternity. Nonexistant migration pat...
Hi, Im searching for access to finantial data from Google services. I found this url that gets the stock data from Microsoft company: http://finance.google.com/finance/info?client=ig&q=NASDAQ:MSFT I would like to know what are all the possible parameters that google allows for this kind of http request, to see all the different ...
As the title says, I'd like to know if there's a good book about using the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 API from an external .NET web application? I mean.. assuming that it's possible to do that without deploying the application to the SharePoint server..? Or I can do that if I have to, but I just want to use certain SharePoi...