I've been looking for a file hosting site to host my files and my friend offered me a premium account on Box.net.
The problem in this host site (and on many others) is that the links arent guessable, they cant be predicted. That means: If you upload 2 images called "1.jpg" and "2.jpg", the links aren't like
"www.host.com/omar/1.jpg , www.host.com/omar/2.jpg" ,
instead, they are like
"www.host.com/qweqwasd , www.host.com/123lqqwje" ..
So I cant use them on my application since I upload a lot of small site and I cant copy each link manually, it will take days.
Is there a way to override this problem in a program? maybe run a script to get all the links on the site?
When you upload a file, presumably the page shown afterwards gives the link - so just parse that page and extract the link from it.
Just think about how you'd get the link if you were a human, and do the same thing in code. (I assume you're already performing the upload in code.)
Alternatively, use a different file hosting site, which lets you specify the filename.
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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 creating a Windows 8 app that can upload content from the local machine into the app (for local storage). I need to search through this content. What is the preferred strategy to use to incorporate this search functionality?
I have been trying to use the SampleData.json and SampleDataSource.cs from the grid template app as a starting point, but to me, it seems like the SampleData.json file will need to be updated each time new content is added to the app, seeing that data is populated from the SampleData.json file.
I have been going through the tutorial from MSDN:
Is there any other tutorials or advice anyone has for me? I need to incorporate this asap
Windows can index files for you, and then you can use the StorageFolder.CreateFileQuery[WithOptions] APIs to search via properties. If you place content inside a folder called "Indexed" in local or roaming app data, then indexing happens automatically and queries execute very quickly. You can also store the content in "appcontent-ms" files if that works better.
There's also the [Windows.Storage.Search.ContentIndexer][2] API for nonfile content or content that can't live in Indexed appdata folders. The ContentIndexer has its own query methods.
For all the details, see the section "Indexing and Searching Content" in Chapter 15 of my free ebook, Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, 2nd Edition. Even though it's using JS as the language, much of the book is just about WinRT so it's entirely useful even if you're working with C#. And it's free, so there's nothing to lose!
We have a company intranet and the powers that be think it would be nice to have a collection of icons/links representing the applications that most reps use (Outlook, Excel, few other apps).
The idea would be that if the application is installed, clicking the link/icon would launch the application on the client machine.
Anyone ever had a requirement like that and been successful implementing it?
Wanted to reach out to everyone before I go back and say no. Thanks in advance for any replies.
Make each button be a link to download a company template file for the given application. For example, the "Excel" button would download and the user should be prompted to open it with Excel.
For instance, try clicking one of the links here:
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=template+filetype:xls
Linking to static files on the web server should be sufficient, so long as your server sends the correct MIME-Type or Content-Type.
You will probably have to adjust browsers' security settings to allow them to follow the links, but you should be able to use URLs of the form file:///C:\\Program Files\\Notepad.exe (You might prefer to use normal slashes / instead, as you don't have to watch out for how many copies of \ are needed to get past quoted string interpretation in whatever you're using to design the web page(s).
Using IE on a local intranet we have implemented this in an ActiveX control. Josh Pearce's solution works for those types of apps with MIME types, but not all apps you may wish to open would work this way.
I want to download an image from a cartoon website. and my app is WinForm,not WebForm.
So let's say that there is an image on the a.html.
Normally, when I click the previous page and am redirected to this page,
there will be a image :"image is loading",let's say A.jpg, in the same block.
After 5 seconds, the real one,let's say B.jpg, will be displayed.
So what I got is only the caching image rather than the one,B.jpg, which I want.
So..... how should I do it?
Thanks in advance.
ps: I have posted this qustion for more than 48 hours, and only got a few of answers which don't solve my problem.
I am wondering that why there are only 2 people posted their answers?
Is my question not clear?
If any, please let me know.
Thanks
EDIT: Original answer removed since I misunderstood the question entirely.
What you want to do is basically HTML scraping: using the actual html of the page to discover where files are hosted and download them. Because I'm not sure if there are any legal reasons that would prevent you from downloading the image files in this manner, I'm just going to outline an approach to doing this and not provide any working samples or anything. In other words, use this information at your own risk.
Using fiddler2 in Firefox, you should be able to find the domain and full url that one of the images is downloaded from. Basically just start fiddler2, navigate to the site in firefox, and then look for the biggest file that is downloaded. That will tell you exactly where the image is coming from.
Next, take a look at the HTML source code for the page you are viewing. The way this particular site works, it looks like it hides the previous/next downloads in a swf or something, but you can find the urls in the javascript for the page. Look for a javascript array called picArr.
To download these using a WinForms app, I would use the WebRequest object. Create a request for each image url and save the response to disk.
I have an web based application. The content for the Home page has been currently mentioned in the HTML code for the Home page using , and tags. To change the content anytime in future, it needs to be changed in the HTML code. :(
Is there a way that we can pick up the content from some external place and get it reflected through the website. This ways, any change if required can be made at the external location without referring to the application's code.
Please advise if there is any solution for it.
Thanks.
You can
Use a database
Include external files using Server Side Includes
Read external files and write their contents and an alternative method
Sounds like you're looking for a Content Management System (CMS), which will allow your content editors access to modify only specific blocks of a page that you specify.
There are a ton out there to do what you want, so you don't have to start from scratch. Just Google 'CMS'.
Although I haven't used it myself, DotNetNuke is a popular one these days and has a free version.