MSDN Search Gadget Updated

A quick update to my MSDN Search Gadget (a small sidebar gadget that lets you search for developer content on MSDN right off your desktop)...

A while back I posted an MSDN search gadget that allows you to search for APIs and other developer content off of the MSDN site directly from the sidebar, both as an exercise to get some value from the sidebar screen real estate, as well as to demo Script#. See the initial post for a screenshot as well as some more details about the code)

Earlier this week, I got an email about the gadget no longer working (thanks Mike for the heads up).

Apparently MSDN changed its Web service address and URL format. Not sure if this was intentional, but given the Web service was in the form of an RSS feed, the change would break anyone aggregating a particular query... clearly in the services world, URLs are a key part of the API and should be preserved for compatibility... but anyway, I am digressing. The main point of this post is that, I just fixed the bug, and uploaded a new version. This time around, I uploaded it to the Windows Live Gallery.


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Posted on Sunday, 6/10/2007 @ 5:46 PM | #Projects