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Tag Archives: web
Videos vs Animated GIFs – Pros and Cons
The modern web and mobile applications are rich in media content because it’s one of the crucial things that keeps the user engaged. An image is worth a thousand words, and a video is worth a million. Obviously, meaningful animated … Continue reading
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Tagged animated GIF, C#, C# programming, example, example program, graphics, multimedia, web, Windows Forms programming
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Get a weather forecast from openweathermap.org in C#
This example displays a weather forecast from openweathermap.org. To get a forecast or other data, you build a URL describing your request and navigate to it. You then parse the returned XML or JSON data to see what openweathermap.org has … Continue reading
Posted in internet, web, XML
Tagged C#, C# programming, example, example program, forecasts, internet, JSON, weather, weather forecast, web, Windows Forms programming, XML
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Blank the WebBrowser control in C#
If a program displays a web page in a WebBrowser control and then that page become irrelevant to the program, you may want to blank the control. Doing that is as easy as making the control navigate to the special … Continue reading
Download and display a text file whenever a program starts in C#
When this example starts, it downloads a file from the internet and displays it. You could do something similar to display a message of the day or announcements for your program. The program uses the following Load event handler to … Continue reading
Posted in files, internet, web
Tagged C#, C# programming, download, download files, example, example program, files, internet, web, Windows Forms programming
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Graph currency rates over time in C#
This example, which shows how to graph currency rates for a specific currency, is a bit longish. Sorry about that. It uses Yahoo Query Language (YQL), which you can use to perform a wide variety of queries on Yahoo’s data. … Continue reading
Posted in finance, internet, mathematics, web
Tagged C#, C# programming, currency conversion rates, currency exchange rates, currency prices, example, example program, finance, get currency conversion rates, get currency exchange rates, get currency prices, get stock prices, get stocks, graph currency conversion rates, graph currency exchange rates, graph currency prices, graph currency rates, internet, mathematics, stock prices, stocks, web, WebClient, Windows Forms programming
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Get currency exchange rates in C#
This example shows how you can get currency exchange rates from finance.yahoo.com. When it starts, the program uses the following code to get the currency exchange rates. // Get the currency symbols. private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { string … Continue reading
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Tagged C#, C# programming, currency conversion rates, currency exchange rates, currency prices, example, example program, finance, get currency conversion rates, get currency exchange rates, get currency prices, get stock prices, get stocks, internet, mathematics, stock prices, stocks, web, WebClient, Windows Forms programming
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Get stock prices from different exchanges in C#
The example Get stock prices from the internet in C# shows how to download stock prices from download.finance.yahoo.com. It builds a URL of the following form to get prices for MCI, DIS, COKE, and PEP: http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=MCI+DIS+COKE+PEP&f=sl1d1t1c1 To get prices from … Continue reading
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Tagged C#, C# programming, example, example program, finance, get stock prices, get stocks, internet, mathematics, stock prices, stocks, web, WebClient, Windows Forms programming
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Make a temperature forecast in C#
The example Get weather forecast data in C# explains how to read weather forecast data from OpenWeatherMap. This example uses that data to list the forecast’s temperatures. The forecast data has (in part) the following structure. <weatherdata> … <forecast> <time … Continue reading
Get weather forecast data in C#
There are many sites that offer weather condition and weather forecast services. All of the ones I found required you to have a developer key, although most of them have a free membership that works for a simple program like … Continue reading
Posted in internet, interoperability, web, XML
Tagged C#, C# programming, example, example program, internet, interoperability, weather conditions, weather forecast, web, Windows Forms programming, XML
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