We have been looking around for blogs for a while. We wanted something that would be hosted on .NET platform and something that will run smoothly using XML.
So we have found dasBlog. This is what our Blog system is using and I have to say it works like a charm. Speed is great, and dasBlog has gave you great access to a portal, which enables you to manipulate your Blog. This way you can really take control in to your hands.
Question is: how do you use das Blog API web service?
I spent hours looking for a little tutorial just showing me how it is done, because I really didn’t have a clue. I am far from new to web services but I just couldn’t find anything. So I have decided to do a Blog post regarding this.
This tutorial will show you how to do a request, and get top 5 posts from your own blog using web service. You can then change your code and make it do different things.
In order to get information from blogger.aspx page, you will need to post information in to it, you will need to use the following XML code for that:
<?xml version=”1.0”encoding=”UTF-8”?>
<methodCall><methodName>metaWeblog.getRecentPosts</methodName>
<params><param><value><string>178663</string></value></param><param><value><string>yourUsername</string></value></param><param><value><string>yourPassword</string></value></param><param><value><int>5</int></value></param>
</params>
</methodCall>
That is it! I am actualy not going to go in to details of how to do this using ASP.NET in this post. I will be talking more about this in my next post and I will also distribute some open source code.
Written:
Zan Kavtaskin – Director of Prosper Web Solutions . Prosper Web Solutions is a web design Cheltenham
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