Tag Archives: api

Facebook API from C# – Getting the list of friends

Facebook has a very useful API, that can give the developer access to pretty much anything Facebook-related when it comes to user profiles. The documentation provided comes in handy and it shows how to use the API from a web developer’s perspective – mostly giving examples in PHP. What if the developer wants to work [...]

I Got Code #2: Progress in the Windows 7 taskbar

Have you seen that new progress indicator in Windows 7 taskbar? If you used Windows 7 at least for a day, chances are you did. Did you like? I surely did. It is handy to see the progress of an operation right in the taskbar, without having to switch to a different window. Something that [...]

Using the Google Weather API – pros and cons so far

For my latest project, WeatherBar, I had to pick a weather API. Basically, I needed to get the weather conditions for a specific location, as well as a short forecast. The choices I had were Yahoo Weather API, WeatherBug API and Google Weather API (yes,there is no mistake here – it is a direct API [...]

Weather in the taskbar

I decided to enter the CodeProject “Windows @ Work” article contest. The idea behind it is creating an application that is using some of the new features Windows 7 has introduced. Since I had some experience developing software that is using the new Windows 7 features (the taskbar and associated jumplists, to be specific), I [...]

IconReference – Using own icons

Since the release of Windows 7, lots of .NET developers felt the need to use the new features introduced by the new OS. One of these features is the possibility to have jump lists for the application icon in the system taskbar.    Natively, using the new taskbar capabilities is only possible by using the Win32 [...]