Is anyone else experiencing problems with the Bing helper in Microsoft.Web.Helpers?
The Bing.AdvancedSearchBox helper method tried to load the following javascript file but throws a 404 error. The script is http://www.bing.com/bootstrap.js
Has anyone else experience the same problem? So far there has not been any updates to the microsoft-web-helpers package in Nuget. Any information is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Diego.
UPDATE 5/1/2011
I found the following official statement...
I wonder when Micorsoft will release an update to Microsoft.Web.Helper to remove the deprecated functionality.
Note: Bing team at Microsoft announced that they will be shutting down siteowner service on April 4th. This will prevent you to use the AdvancedSearchBox feature of Bing on your website/blog or web applications. Here is the quote from Bing's official blog:
As of April 4th, 2011 we will discontinue support for the bing.com/siteowner functionality. If you continue to leverage the feature after this date (April 4th, 2011), users who attempt to query in the search box will be redirected to a 404 page. This means that you will need to move to the Bing API in order to continue to receive web or site search results from us. We have decided to take this step for two reasons.
First, the tool has not been getting a lot of use and while we have some very loyal customers on it, we believe we can provide you better alternatives in the future as we free up resources.
Second, the functionality available through bing.com/siteowner can be replicated with the Bing search API and so it feels a bit redundant.
As has become customary, we will give you a window to migrate off and ask us any questions you may have about this change. We will also provide reminders as we get closer to April 4th. Thank you so much for your support.
It looks like something has changed on the bing servers and this script no longer exists.
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My project is reliant on several API's, like Twitter and Youtube for example. Recently, Youtube deprecated their old API, and it caused issues with my team's iPad app.
We could have stayed ahead of the change if we were paying attention to Youtube's announcements of the upcoming deprecation. But alas, we were not and the idea of staying up to date with all of our dependencies manually(browsing the web) seems exhausting and inefficient.
I have found the following tool to help notify when changes occur with external library dependencies, https://libraries.io. However, this does not help with API dependencies.
Besides checking the API source webpages every so often, I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on how to stay notified and up-to-date with news regarding updates to a specified list of external API's?
After some time looking at different options, I have found a solution that is not perfect, but seems to work best at fitting this need.
Solution Description
This solution uses a combination of Twitter, Google Scripts, and website blogtrottr.com. I am creating a twitter list of reliable dev handles that often post updates on new API. For example I made a list that contained #twitterapi and #YouTubeDev. Used Google Scripts to create an online feed out of the twitter list. Then used blogtrottr to email me every time that feed gets a new posting.
Steps to Implement
Create a twitter list of reliable handles that often post about updates to their API
Create an RSS Feed from that Twitter list. The details for how to do this can be found here.
Plug that url that you get from Google Script into blogtrotter.
I did find some other ways to do this, but so far this is the only solution that was 100% free!
I am creating an application in which I am trying to implement google image search using Google- image-search API. I refer this [google API link] (https://developers.google.com/image-search/v1/) . But I have one problem, on that page, mentioned (DEPRECATED). So can I use this API or I should use other API? Can anyone knows about this?
Thank you in advance
If APIs are deprecated they may work for now but not with full features and may go offline in near future.
If you go to https://developers.google.com/image-search/
It says its Deprecated and the number of requests are limited now.
Important: The Google Image Search API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011.
It will continue to work as per our deprecation policy, but the number of requests you may make per day may be limited. We encourage you to upgrade to the Custom Search API, which now supports image search.
Here is the link to Custom Search API
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/
Hope it helps
Deprecated means it is older one also it means that there exist new version code for that. Check this out.
Example:
For example, in order to change our search engine from webresults-based to image-based, we can utilize the defaultToImageSearch attribute.
I have an iOS app that has been fetching the user's Facebook status updates and location checkins using "/me/posts" for several months. After today's "breaking changes" update, "/me/posts" only returns recent "Like"s. It looks like "/me/statuses" and "/me/checkins" are the new proper places to check for these things. I guess that makes sense, but I saw no documentation anywhere describing these changes or saying that they would happen today. The original documentation about what is specifically returned from the graph API also seems pretty slim.
So my questions are: is this an official change to the API? Where was it specified? Where should I look so I can stay on top of these things and not have my app break for hundreds of users?
Perhaps more importantly: are "/me/statuses" and "/me/checkins" the new proper ways to get this information? Or is there something else?
Always good to keep a (sharp) eye on the Developer Roadmap. These types of changes happen often, but FB usually does a good job of calling them out ahead of time. You've answered your own question as far as whether or not it's an "official" change - you're seeing it in the wild - insofar as how Facebook works, it's official.
Try using the Graph API Explorer. It could be an access token issue.
FYI: I see a similar issue with my application, and I am able retrieve the posts only when I use the Graph API Explorer and the token I get from there.
Update: I found where some of the problems lived. In the app profile in Facebook, pick "Edit Settings" and then go to "Advanced" where you'll see a section called "Migrations". This is mostly switches to show compatibility for various "breaking changes" updates, but it also includes an option for "Include Checkins with Statuses".
Now I know where to look, things are making a bit more sense.
I would like to know is there any forum or google repository where we can publish our dart projects for showcasing or for fun just to exchange opinions other than github or any svn vendors as such.
Since all major platform vendors have this feature.
If yes would request someone to point me in the right direction since I am working on a small simple project and I am interested in just publishing our work just for experiment sake.
Check out http://www.builtwithdart.com - which aims to be a showcase of community contributed Dart apps.
To contribute pick from the following options:
clone, edit and submit a pull request at the site's github
open an issue at the site's github
Ping me a message
Ideally contributors would be able to provide a screenshot, a G+ link, and a paragraph or two about the app - especially welcome are any notes you have about developing it using Dart.
This is what we have: http://www.dartlang.org/samples/. Other projects that use Google technologies are showcased on https://developers.google.com/showcase/, but Dart has its own site. http://www.dartlang.org/samples/ already has some third-party contributions. If we get a lot more, we can do more to showcase them. It'd also be great to showcase a bunch of cool apps at Google I/O, especially if they're large and in production or if they're particularly cool technologically. If you're working on those sorts of things, you can either send me email, leave me a comment, or post to the Dart mailing list. Thanks!
Is the MetaWeblog API still supported? I ask because while researching XMLRPC, the Cook Computing library and implementing MetaWeblog API, I clicked a link that took me to MSDN that states the topic has been removed.
There is a link there that takes me to new docs for Windows Live SDK. On the new page i cannot find current info on MWAPI.
I am using EF, MV3, and VB.Net.
MetaWeblog API support had always seemed (to me) tenuous at best. Seeing as how the project hasn't been updated since 2003 (http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi) I think it is safe to assume that support has essentially ceased. That's my .02 anyway.
(Also, the Yahoo web group's newest post is from 2004 (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MetaWeblog-API/))