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This is just a quick post, as I get a lot of hits from people looking for c# and xbox 360 stuff.http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/03/14/net-on-the-xbox/ http://blogs.msdn.com/mikezintel/archive/2006/03/14/550958.aspxThe above post indicate that in the future using the CLR on the 360 might be a possibility, what this means for home brew development is unclear because I doubt that you would be allowed to develop on the XBox 360 with out a licence.You never know though, stranger things have happened!

Just following on from one of my previous post about using SOAP requests from ASP.Net to access Ebay.I have finally worked out [it wasn’t hard in the end] how to do it.A few things that I had problems with were: Most of the request REQUIRE the version attribute to be set The DetailLevel attribute must be set on some request to enable you to A Authentication Token is required to send request to Ebay.

A Google search came by my site the other day for the following query: “ajax definition .net for dummies”Firstly I will provide a breif definition of what AJAX is: Asynchronous JAvaScript and XML. Using an enhancement (originally by Microsoft for Web Outlook) in JavaScript that allows Web pages to be more interactive by communicating with the server retrieving data without the browser reloading the entire page.This communication helps provide a better User experience when interacting with a website (when used correctly).

a reader visited my site the other day with the following search query: ebay asp.net api soap wsdl.I have been trying to use the Ebay api and I have been finding it a little bit awkward to use. It appears to be a massivly monotlithic piece of API. I would have prefered that each API call have its owb WSDL and thus its own SOAP interface. This way I onlyt need to worry about the using and importing a very small stub.

I just wrote a massive post about sealed classes, but I have lost it in Blogger. Bummer.I will try and get it done again.

For all the hype, Project Origami really isn’t that interesting to me. Its a nice idea dont get me wrong and I would love to have one myself, but it seems to be kind of an obvious thing to make.

I have just a quick question that I am hoping people will give me feed back to.If I provided an email subscription list that notified you of updates to my blog would you subscribe to this?I am basically wondering if it is worth creating an email list for people who want to keep track of my site without having to use my RSS or ATOM feeds.

I have had a search against my site for finding the User Locale in C#.There are a couple of ways that this can be done. If you are using ASP.Net you can look at the Request.UserLanguages string array to see what preferences they have set up. The first locale in the array should be the locale that they normally work. Obviously this is browser dependent and user configuration dependent.Using this information you could then set the threads culture (so that all comparisons etc are performed with the correct culture awareness) using the following piece of code:Thread.

I have had a search to my page where I know the reader probably didn’t find what they were looking for.This post is to hopefully let that user find the information that they are looking for better.The Search term was “find file extension with regex in c#”.A simple regex that could be used in C# to find file extensions is:.+.([^.]+)$This will find an extension that is at the end of the string.

Has a microformat been proposed around “Questions and Answers”.I think it would be good to mark a question and the corresponding answer in<span class=qa><span class=question>Where does paul kinlan live?</span><span class=answer>liverpool</span></span>It could help solve some semantic meaning to what part of text is a question and what is the anwser.For instance I get a lot of searches coming to my site with queries such as “How do I…”, “What does…”. I could set up a “search engine” that parses pages with this micro format in and indexes question and answer pairs rather than whole text pages.

I have updated the UI of kinlan.co.uk.Let me know what you think. It is another Blogger Template, but I think it is easier to read and lighter on the bandwidth.I will be making more minor changes to update some things that I would like to see

I have been on a Mastering UML training course at IBM Eductation services in London the past week and have not had access to the Internet. I hope to catch up on blogging.The course was pretty good (accept for no Internet Access). I learnt quite a bit. Chas Weaver (The instuctor) was good too! He applies alot of his experiences to the course.

I have read and listended to a lot of what Bill Hill has discused and I respect his opinion a lot.He has made a post about the decision to turn on Cleartype in IE7 Beta 2. I recommend that if you read the post if you want to learn more, but to soundbite [or rather “lift”] from the blog entry. The decision to turn ClearType on by default in IE is unusual, but was made because solid research over the past few years has shown conclusively that it improves reading - the task at which IE users spend most of their time.

As promised, although a little late I have updated the Regex to get CSS classnames via C#. The problem I had was that it would find file extensions in a url specified by the “url(xyz.png)” in an attribute.I added a little negative look behind and now it seems to work prety well:string css = @” .someclass { background: white url(someimage.png) repeat-x top left; } .someclass2 { background: white url ( someimage.

I was thinking about it, like I said in my previous post, but I have still couldn’t think of a design that I really really liked, something really simple but wouldn’t make people go “ick”.Ah well, if I get time I will update the style :)

Coding Horror [http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/] is a brilliant blog. It is the kind of blog that I like to read at the moment, it has some insighful entries and is just generally a good blog to read. I wish I could style myself around this Blog. I might try the layout of that site in my own blog because it is very crisp and clean, my site is bloated, slow and ugly colours.

The Opensearch spec that I wrote the other day was a little inaccurate, thanks to Michael Fagan for the comment.Nice. I look forward to the day when all blogs offer this.Btw, your ShortName is much longer than 16 characters, the maximum, so you should be using LongName instead. See http://opensearch.a9.com/spec/1.1/description/#longname . Also, while your OpenSearch Description file is correct, your display on the blog post uses some lowercase characters when they should be in uppercase.

I managed to speak to the Google Adsense for Search team about using my Google Adsene Account in the SiteSearch in IE7, suffice to say I was correct in my first guess: You are not allowed to use anything but their search boxes. I think this is a bit limiting, but the person I spoke to said they would pass it to their product team for consideration.So in summary, using IE 7’s open search provider with Adsense is a no no.

If you are using IE7 Beta 2 and you are looking this entry from my site you should notice that I have provided a customer search provider.The search provider hooks up with Google search, so you can now search my site for specific text. I am not too sure if this breaks any T’s & C’s of Google but I will take it down if anyone complains.This is just a showcase really to show you how easy it is to set up a custom site search provider in Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2.

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