Soulware Corporation :: Developer's Blog

Auto Shutdown v1.2.0.0.

2009-12-31T02:50:00.000+05:30

This is the latest version of Auto Shutdown. The added Features are

1. Installshield setup file, just click and install.
2. It saves the last shutdown time in the application settings.

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Accessing a crossdomain Feed from a client application (Silverlight/Flash) using Yahoo Pipes

2009-12-31T00:02:00.001+05:30

One of the cool features of Silverlight 3 is the support for cross-domain web requests. This enables you to call web APIs directly from your Silverlight client without proxying the request through your own server. The service you’re calling must provide a policy file permitting cross-domain callers. This is the same security mechanism used by Flash to make cross-domain calls, and in fact Silverlight 3 respects the same crossdomain.xml format as Flash. Any service callable by Flash is now callable by Silverlight 3.

Several popular Web 2.0 services, like Flickr, have a crossdomain.xml file that allows for cross-domain Silverlight clients. Others, like Twitter,Google News have a more restricted crossdomain.xml file that only allows callers from certain domains. Most sites however don’t provide a crossdomain.xml, so for instance if you want to consume their RSS feed you need to proxy the request through your server.

Today I started on a new Silverlight project where we want to consume RSS feed, and I was just thinking to add my “standard” WCF proxy to the project then I got the information about yahoo pipes from google . Yahoo Pipes is a really cool service that let’s you define fairly complex web integrations using drag-and-drop. You drag different sources, filters and operations on a design service and “connect” the pipes together to pipe and transform the data. When I checked http://pipes.yahoo.com/crossdomain.xml I was a little disappointed to get a 404, but after digging around a little it turns out Yahoo host their APIs on a different URL: http://pipes.yahooapis.com/crossdomain.xml. Yahoo Pipes supports cross-domain callers!

I quickly created a really simple pipe. It uses the Rss Feed url of google news, then gives the output and a url of pipes.yahoo.com , just change 'yahoo' to 'yahooapis'.... Now you got a link which you can use in your flash or silverlight application to access the crossdomain feeds directly..

First Snaps Of The developers

2009-12-24T16:22:00.000+05:30

Big Day for Soulware!

2009-12-12T12:38:00.001+05:30

A big day for Soulware, Successfully cracked BC's viva, 3 of us was the fastest programmer and the 4th one almost done it !!

Auto Shutdown

2009-11-11T18:59:00.007+05:30

An Useful Software for all broadband subscriber. Just start your download, Schedule the shut down time, and go to sleep, your computer will shut down automatically at the scheduled time. I just made it few days ago, I'm posting the download link also giving the source code, I will update the software soon with more features, stay in touch..

Required : .Net Framework 2.0 (Which you all supposed to have if you are using Windows XP or later Versions)

Public Class FormMain

Private ShutDownTime As DateTime

Private Sub CloseToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CloseToolStripMenuItem.Click

Me.Close()

End Sub

Private Sub AboutToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles AboutToolStripMenuItem.Click

About_Box.ShowDialog()

End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

Me.ToolStripStatusLabelTime.Text = TimeOfDay.ToLongTimeString

Me.DateTimePicker1.Value = Now

Me.LabelStatus.Visible = False

Me.TimerCheckMinimize.Enabled = True

End Sub

Private Sub TimerLabelTime_Tick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TimerLabelTime.Tick

Me.ToolStripStatusLabelTime.Text = TimeOfDay.ToLongTimeString

End Sub

Private Sub Button_Set_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button_Set.Click

If Me.DateTimePicker1.Value <= Now Then

Me.ShutDownTime = Me.DateTimePicker1.Value.AddDays(1)

Else

Me.ShutDownTime = Me.DateTimePicker1.Value

End If

Me.TimerShutDown.Enabled = True

Me.LabelStatus.Text = "The Computer will Shut Down at " & Me.DateTimePicker1.Value.ToLongTimeString

Me.LabelStatus.ForeColor = Color.Green

Me.LabelStatus.Visible = True

End Sub

Private Sub Button_Reset_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button_Reset.Click

Me.LabelStatus.Text = "Select a Time and set the Timer"

Me.LabelStatus.ForeColor = Color.Red

Me.LabelStatus.Visible = True

Me.TimerShutDown.Enabled = False

End Sub

Private Sub TimerShutDown_Tick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TimerShutDown.Tick

If Now >= ShutDownTime Then

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("shutdown", "-s -t 00")

Me.TimerShutDown.Enabled = False

End If

End Sub

Private Sub NotifyIcon1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NotifyIcon1.Click, NotifyIcon1.BalloonTipClicked

If Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized Then

Me.Show()

Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal

Me.TimerCheckMinimize.Enabled = True

Me.TimerLabelTime.Enabled = True

End If

End Sub

Private Sub TimerCheckMinimize_Tick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TimerCheckMinimize.Tick

If Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized Then

Me.Hide()

Me.NotifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(2000)

Me.TimerCheckMinimize.Enabled = False

Me.TimerLabelTime.Enabled = False

End If

End Sub

End Class

This is the main code...

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We are in twitter.

2009-11-07T21:35:00.000+05:30

We are now in twitter, follow us to stay in touch.

Another Boring Day

2009-11-06T22:58:00.001+05:30

It turns to be another boring day. When we'll get the freedom to work on our own, to innovate freely? Time is just getting wasted following the bogus syllabus. Is this the way we'll reach our destiny?

The Beginning

2009-11-04T23:54:00.001+05:30

We have started and hope that we never look back......

A Feature Of Soulware

2009-11-03T19:08:00.000+05:30

This is the official blog of Soulware Corporation,
Co- founders: Arup, Kaustav, Sandeep, Sreedipto..