I encourage everyone to donate the smallest amount of money to the Wikimedia Foundation in order to keep our global encyclopedia the way it is today.

Thank you!

Oana and myself just got back from the RONUA VS2010 Roadshow in Timisoara where we presented our Hawkeye WP7 app.

The event started with a keynote by Aurelian Popa, continued with our presentation, followed by the Imagine Cup 2010 embedded teams from Timisoara, BUZZ & EcoSynthesis, and ended with an F# introduction and Windows 7 for devs presentations.

The event lasted a good four hours with lots of knowledge in them and it was worth attending.

To check out our Hawkeye presentation, go to http://tinyurl.com/resurse-hawkeye and you'll get out pptx file and some other WP7 resources.

Take care,

Oana & Arthur

PS: Go check out: ronua.ro, twitter.com/ronua, facebook.com/ronua

DotNetPanel is now an open-souce project on SourceForge.NET with a new name: WebsitePanel.

I've used DotNetPanel for over a year and I can say it is an excellent solution for online IIS management on a shared server platform. Besides, it has component integration with ftp, exchange, ad, sharepoint, mail servers, blackberry and so on.

You can read more about this release on:

http://www.dotnetpanel.com/

http://websitepanel.net/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/websitepanel/

Hotspot is our new little winner project, for BEST Timisoara Microsoft Competition (17-26 November 2009).

It is a Windows Azure and Silverlight project designed and developed for this competition.

Currenty at version 1.1, you can find it on Codeplex at hotspot.codeplex.com  and online "on the cloud" at hotspot.cloudapp.net. 

The competition was judged by: 

• George Pristavu, Microsoft Romania
• Mihai Tataran, Microsoft MVP
• Alin Taranu, Microsoft Timisoara

We were very glad to participate, it was a real challenge (PDC was side by side), and promise to continue working on it, at least to version 2.0.

Have a nice day.

HTML Agility Pack (link) este o solutie de pe CodePlex creata in .NET, care permite manipularea fisierelor HTML din aplicatii web.
Contine proiectul propriu-zis de tipul Class library si un folder virtual cu 4 proiecte exemple de utilizare (conversii in XML, TXT si RSS).

Un obiect HTML poate fi obtinut dintr-un TextReader, o cale sau un Stream prin metoda Load (are 11 overload-uri), sau direct din continutul html in format string prin metoda LoadHtml.

Exemplu:
//continutul HTML obtinut ca byte array prin WebClient si apoi convertit in string cu ajutorul UTF8Encoding
string contentHTML;
HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(contentHTML);

Pentru accesarea unui anumit element din DOM se foloseste XPATH.
HtmlNode nod = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//div[@class=align_right]/table[@id]");

De asemenea se pot parcurge noduri din intreaga ierarhie, sau cele direct inrudite Parent, Sibling sau Child sau se pot obtine direct atributele sau continutul lor.