VBOTW #01 (Web Service API)

[Invidus]

Don't spam the thread.

[Lolland]

Don't spam the thread.

He's kinda right though.
/jk

BTW there will be a signature reward for winning the competition, and possibly your name will be added to a list of winners.

[NextGen1]

Answer a few Questions and Comments, Lolland is on, So I will talk to him a bit about it, if you read through the extensive first post, You have exactly one week, that makes this contest end tues. morning, another will begin tues evening.

Winner will be announced after submission closings and all things are reviewed.

Some Ideas...Really , all any (even beginner) developer has to do is look through the list of API's and Ideas should spark.

If I was joining this contest (hint alter ) I would take the week to develop a application that has a functional user interface which is sleek and "candy like to the eye" , I would then (if it was me) Develop multiple mini applications inside of a single application (similar to that of a phone, like android, iphone, or widgets {except localized inside the application}) I would add speech SDK to allow the user the option of typing and or speaking thier search queries, and I would probally add a Yelp and Yellow Book API , The UPS API , Google Maps API, Google Search API, Bing API, and a few others that exist, then combine all the API's into creating a "decent" Single application which will allow you to search the net for ANYTHING based on speech or type and would return the appropriate results without ever having to open a browser, Imagine saying Find Pizza, and it will locate (based on IP) pizza places locally and return the results with yellow book information, yelp information and Show thier locations on the map. Etc. Etc. , Yes some phones (androids) do alot of this alone, but as a AIO package for your PC, it would be fun.

So anyway, that is a example, somewhat extensive, but a example.

Yes, You can create a simple Google Search APP, or Google Maps APP, but there is no need for a browser at all, Web Service API's allow you to integrate web features into a platform other then a browser.

[trevor206]

yeah im not really a beginner but i quit on this one cause well idk how to use an api lolland tried helping but he couldn't help me.

[Blubb1337]

API is easy. You import the .dll as reference or add the class, depending if you have a class or .dll.

Afterwards you import it.

Imports Youtube.Dll

Dim yt as new youtube.dll("youtubelink")

Listbox1.Items.Add("Name: " & yt.title)

Just an quick example.

[trevor206]

API is easy. You import the .dll as reference or add the class, depending if you have a class or .dll.

Afterwards you import it.

Imports Youtube.Dll

Dim yt as new youtube.dll("youtubelink")

Listbox1.Items.Add("Name: " & yt.title)

Just an quick example.

... what dll all the api websites try doing is getting me to buy stuff, and lolland told me to google .net apis and it came up with porn so after that i quit.

[Hassan]

... what dll all the api websites try doing is getting me to buy stuff, and lolland told me to google .net apis and it came up with porn so after that i quit.

Hahahaahhahaha \fail LolZ JK

[Jason]

Lol and here I was thinking that we had to WRITE our own API's for this, and those were gunna be judged.

[Lolland]

Lol and here I was thinking that we had to WRITE our own API's for this, and those were gunna be judged.

Haha, oh wow.


BTW if anyone cares this is a prototype of the siggy reward I made:

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[NextGen1]

Really quick guys.

Using API is essentially the same as using a drag and drop component, just a few extra steps. I wrote a API tutorial a while back. But...

there are 100s of lists of API , here is another API Dashboard: ProgrammableWeb

another one of my favorite lists are https://techmagazine.ws/full-web-20-api-list/

In either case, once you add the reference ( a wsdl /Soap file) you import the resource then use it like you would a component.

Example

Add Web Reference using the Add Web Reference Feature.
Open up the Code View

In the namespace (above Public Class FormName) Add Imports Web Reference Name

Then create a new instance of the resource

Public Youtube as New Webreferencename.YoutubeAPI (or whatever it is)

now you can use the features

Youtube.Download
Youtube.Play
Youtube.movie

Or whatever they are.

Point isn't to make a tutorial here, but to explain, it really is rather simple.

and the possibilities. ...endless.

['Bruno]

Lol and here I was thinking that we had to WRITE our own API's for this, and those were gunna be judged.

for some reason i though that too ;o

[omanel]

I'm doing some research and I'm starting to understand that I suck really bad lol...
A lot of api's appear in a xml or html format I think, is there anyway I can use them in my application?Or am I just searching the wrong ones?

[NextGen1]

They should be in XML, But when you add them as a reference (the URL that displays the XML) You will have access to it's functions, You don't need to know XML at all.

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[Jason]

[IMG]https://i111.photobucke*****m/albums/n121/golmor.png[/IMG]

I like that signature, it's rad. Pwnt my shitty attempt:

[NextGen1]

I like yours

Now about web services

VB Tutorial

https://www.devguru.com/features/tuto...ebService1.asp

and some others.

https://www.codeprojec*****m/KB/webser...econsumer.aspx

it's C# but reading it you should get the idea, plus you can convert code to see how it is implemented in vb.net, this article is extremely small, and that puts how easy this is into perspective.


Here is a more detailed explanation of the XML WSDL and creating a Weather Service API
Again C# but understandable and convertible.

https://msdn.microsof*****m/en-us/magazine/cc163819.aspx