ASP.NET Applications

Google Search RSS Feeds

Here is my attempt to transform Google Search Results into a RSS feed. This functionality is missing from Google. Test it out and provide some feedback. I have published the feed as a web service at http://www.ecubicle.net/gsearch_rss.asmx There is a Read More...

Extension Methods in VB.NET

Extension methods allow developers to add functionality to the existing .NET types without recompiling the source, or extending (deriving from the type) the type. For certain types, such as String, these cannot be extended because they are declared as Read More...

LINQ and ADO .NET Data Services Videos

I have published some tutorials on YouTube on LINQ and ADO .NET Data Services. ADO .NET Data Services allow creation of REST based services which is simply a fancy way of serializing data as XML and returning it over HTTP. You can view these tutorials Read More...

Google Maps KML and LINQ to Display Driving Directions

The important part is to retrieve the KML file ( XML based standard ) from Google Maps ( refer to urlString ). Once we have the KML file, we create an XMLDataSource control, retrieve the XmlDocument's InnerXml. After that, we parse the elements to retrieve Read More...

YouTube Download Web Service: Integrate YouTube Download into your .NET apps FREE

Here is an interesting web service that allows applications to download youtube videos. Applications that require interaction with youtube can obviously use the YouTube API's to provide exhaustive youtube functionality right from their web sites. However, Read More...