i am creating an ASP.NET C# web application and I am looking for the easiest way to do a comments system.
I'll explain.
I have a page containing Items (list items containing texts)
I want the users to be able to click on one, and then he is allowed to reply or comment to it. and he can see what others have replied too.
Is there a library or API that can do that? and if not can you give me tips on how to do it?
Have a look at systems like DISQUS or Livefyre. The benefit of using such services (besides avoiding development) is social integration.
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Hi I am trying to pull this string from courseweb.hopkinsschools.org and display it on my own asp.net application. I have been looking for a long time for a tutorial but nothing works. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Picture of String needed:
String
When I started doing work with websites and interfacing with other websites, I originally wanted to do what you're talking about, reading the text from pages, because thats how we as people interface with computers and websites.
But that is not how computers should ever interface with other websites unless absolutely necessary.
Moodle has an API for such things like course management. Its kind of difficult to find information on, but its called Moodle Web Services if I remember quickly. I'll add a link back if I can find it.
What these will do is let you access moodle in a computer friendly way, ie. a way your computer can easily understand, instead of trying to read webpages.
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Here are some resources to get you started:
https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Web_services
https://code.google.com/p/mnet-csharp/
https://delog.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/integrating-a-c-app-with-moodle-using-xml-rpc/
https://delog.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/integrating-c-app-with-moodle-2/
I'm trying to create a wpf application such as a movies library because i would like to manage and sort out my movies with a pretty interface.
I'd like to create a library with all my movies getting information from the web, but i don't know how very well.
I thought to get the information from a web site, for example imdb, but i don't know if it's legally to capture html from page to get the nested information.
It's my first desktop application and I would also like to know if it is necessary to create a database within the project and then create a setup project with specified script for deploy it.
Sorry for the confusion but i would like to know too much things :)
Thanks a lot in advance.
The legality of web scraping is a grey area. See my question, "Legality of Web Scraping vs Normal Use" and the corresponding answers for some insight.
Even if the legality is not a problem, web scraping is a flimsy approach because the webpage structure may change without notice, making your application suddenly useless until you update it to the new format. You are much better off using some sort of web API (if the site providing the information offers it).
Whether you need a database or not depends entirely on what your application will be doing and how you design it - it's not something any of us can tell you.
Same goes for the setup project - in fact I wouldn't worry about that until you actually have a working application. Take it step by step and keep the scope within control.
Yes I did not think about api.
It's a great idea, maybe use "themoviedb".
But if i create an application based on it, that has to show all the movies that you have stored on your hdd and get , for example, the posters, the description and the ranking, i have to create a database according to you?
Thanks a lot.
Is it possible to allow a user to customize sections of our website to match their look and feel? For example, to modify logos and CSS, possibly pointing back to their site for the actual content. Ideally I would also like a third-party (ASP.NET) tool to manage this, rather than coding a hack myself.
Edited: I want a solution where a customer can just use a menu to modify the attributes they want, so that there is no need for me to interact with the customer at all.
What you want is a CMS (Content Management System), there are lots out there. Just find one that suits you.
I hear Sitefinity is good.
I am new to WebParts and have a newbie question... is it possible to load webparts from other sites like MSN? For example, can a user save the weather web part from theie MyMSN site and load into my newly created site that allows web parts.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Tony,
That's a good question. Generally with WebParts, in order to load a webpart from a third party website, they would have to provide a WebPart package file to download. Codeplex has a lot of samples: see http://www.codeplex.com/site/search?query=webpart&ac=8. So, if you were looking at a site like MyMSN, it's not likely you would be able to load web parts from that site.
There may be other ways to integrate that data, though. For example, you could offer a web part that acts as a proxy for data within other environments. So, let's say that you have an RSS feed that you want to allow people to add to your site. In this scenario, you could create (or use a third party) web part that reads RSS, and allow your users to simply configure it to read MSN news or Yahoo! news, etc.
One other area to explore might be a portlet specification like JSR-000168 you can download from http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr168/index.html. This is an attempt to standardize Portlets (i.e. Webparts) that some companies have adopted as a way to share them across the web.
I'm wanting to use google maps and see a million ways to do it on the web. Some are javascript methods and some are asp.net server components with which I have hit and miss luck. What's the easiest and most reliable way using c# and asp.net?
I have my location data including geocodes in a database. I want to provide users a method to do a lookup for certain locations. From there, my code will provide a table of geocodes to google maps with markers on the map corresponding to the found entries. Users can see each entry and need to be able to tell which is which if multiple rows are returned.
Is there a good way to do this?
The Google Maps API is accessed via JavaScript (any server controls are just abstracting this away from you). In the case you described, you would need to dynamically output the required JavaScript to tell the maps API what to display.
See http://dotnet.sys-con.com/node/171162
There are a few server controls to do it, like this, but you have to learn how to do things in one way (server control) or another (Javascript Google API).
I recommend using the Google API, since it has more samples all over the web, and you can use new features implemented by Google right after they release them and don't have to wait for the server control developer to do it.
I would recommend using direct JavaScript to create the Google Maps. It's fairly straight forward and then you will be able to understand what's going on behind the scenes.
Google has some pretty good tutorials and documentation to get you up and running quick. Once you add one to your site, it will become very easy to setup the rest of the customization that you need.
Take a look at this site for examples.
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/
As usual I point to ComponentOne who has a nice SilverLight control for this that can use google-maps or Microsofts Live Maps, it uses Silverlight Deep Zoom to handle it nicely:
http://www.componentone.com/SuperProducts/MapsSilverlight/
Live example:
http://demo.componentone.com/Silverlight/Factories/
(I'm not from ComponentOne, just a satisfied customer) ;)
I know you can do it yourself with scripts and other ways, but its just so much more fun to use code allreade written. ;)
Best .NET Wrapper for Google Maps or Yahoo Maps?
BTW: I found a great post here that has an example on how to do a store lookup. Works really well. I recommend!!
http://blog.donnfelker.com/post/HOWTO-Build-a-Store-Locator-in-ASPNET.aspx
Check out this example: Data driven Google Maps in ASP.Net
I used ASP.Net Ajax to create a web-service that is callable from JavaScript.
The web-service talks to the database and fills a very basic object. ASP.Net Ajax, then makes the object available to my client javascript. The rest is easy: In the client, you call the webservice from Javascript, read the data returned and populate Google Maps, using simple Google Maps API calls.
Check out the site at link text
Please, try my GoogleMaps control for ASP.NET