In this article we will see how you can develop a Weather gadget for Windows 7 which uses Yahoo Weather API for fetching Weather data. The application will also have some of the latest exciting features of Windows 7 like Thumbnail Toolbar and Progress bar.
Read the rest of my article in dotnetcurry
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Check out my article about how you can develop your own mp3 player for Windows 7. Some screenshots below.
As previously Tweeted(?) by me TweetMyPC verision 3 is under development and will be released soon.
I thought it will be a good idea to post the change log here for feedback and suggestions. I must thank Stefan for his huge interest in TweetMyPC. The entire credit goes to him for helping me.
.We would like to hear your suggestions and comments. Do you have any cool commands to be added? Let us know!
Don’t forget to give us your feedback here.
A little open source .net application to turn off your laptop/computer monitor by double clicking a Notify Icon developed by me.
You can download the source code and setup from codeplex.
In this article we will see how we can use .Net and communicate with the most popular blogging tool Wordpress and post a new blog post. Before starting the development of our application, it is very important to learn about XML-RPC because we will be using XML-RPC to communicate with a Wordpress blog.
Read the rest of my article in dotnetcurry.
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Course includes videos and hands-on-labs designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including: C# 4.0, Visual Basic 10, F#, Parallel Computing Platform, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, ASP.NET MVC Dynamic Data.
Write your own Desktop Translator using the Bing API in few lines of code. Check out my article in dotnetcurry.
Bing Desktop Translator using C# and VB.NET
How many tmes have you made your Gtalk conacts wait after they send you a message in Google Talk when you are not at your desk?
Here is a new open sourc application from me. Gtalk auto reply will enable you to send automated replies in Google Talk.
You can get the setup and source code here. If you are looking for step by step explanation about the source code then check this tutorial by me in dotnetcurry.com
TweetMyPC v 2.0 is available for download. Lot of new commands. You can view the details about all the new commands in one of my previous posts. You can get the latest version from product home page at codeplex. As usual the source code can also be downloaded from the Releases section. I have used Vb.net to develop TweetMyPC. If you are looking for a c# version then source code for v1.0 is also available in the releases section.
TweetMyPC v 1.0 crossed 4k downloads today 
and hope you will find the new version useful.
Note: TweetMyPC was developed for my personal use and for educational purposes only. Please do not use if you are worried about Security. Do not use TweetMyPC to deal with confidential information.
There was an interesting question stackoverflow today.
Why are my classes Private by default in Visual Studio .net?
Here is why
By default a class without an access specifier is internal and a member defaults to private. This it keeps the visibility as restricted as possible and thereby increases encapsulation.
Making a new class public without even thinking about breaks the entire idea of encapsulation.
The class template that VS uses to create a new class can be found in this zip file (in case of CSharp):
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\1033\Class.zip or C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Code\1033 when using VS Orcas
Open the zip file, add the public keyword, save it and you’re done. Every time you add a class it will be public.
Check out the question here.
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