Archive for November, 2005

Another MSN Bot

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Add smarterchild@hotmail.com to your MSN contacts to get weather, movies and more updated info. It’s not as smart as the the Encarta Bot, that is why it is called the “smartchild”.

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Windows Live Messenger Screenshots

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

Check some Windows Live Messenger Screenshots here

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Encarta Bot in MSN Messenger

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

Add this contact to your MSN: encarta@conversagent.com
Ask some questions like: Capital of Uruguay? Population of Mongolia?, etc.

It also opens a side panel showing the answer in the Encarta online.
If you feel bored, you can also talk with this bot for a while… :-)

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Showing Listview values

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Use the following code to get the text value of the selected item in a ListView:
Form1.lstContacts.options[Form1.lstContacts.selectedIndex].text

Use the following code to get the value of the selected item in a ListView:
Form1.lstContacts.options[Form1.lstContacts.selectedIndex].value

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Parse a XML String

Monday, November 21st, 2005

There is a very easy way to parse an XML String: just load it in a dataSet! Check this code:

Dim currxml as string = SOME XML WITH A ROOT NODE
Dim xmldoc As New XmlDocument
xmldoc.LoadXml(currxml)
Dim XMLnr As New XmlNodeReader(Xmldoc.SelectSingleNode(”root”))
Dim ds As New DataSet
ds.ReadXml(XMLnr)
for each aRow as DataRow in ds.Tables(0)
dim aValue as string = cstr(aRow(”aprop”))
Next

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Ajax IM

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Have you ever wanted to build an Ajax IM? Well…to late because there are many other people that already did it. Check this Ajax IM with source code or the famous multiprotocol Meebo

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Welcome!

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Welcome to my new personal page. All the post here will be related to my current job as a developer in a software company specialized in Instant Messaging solutions and the world of the Instant Messaging in general. At Interactive Networks Inc. we develop corporate IM products and we also have a free multiprotocol IM client that can be downloaded here. In our free IM you can have MSN, Yahoo, AOL/ICQ accounts at the same time, as well as our own network account, to chat with your friends and family. Have fun and enjoy the IM journey!

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