Friday, January 13, 2006 - Posts

posted Friday, January 13, 2006 6:38 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Importing OPML file into Vista RSS subscriptions

  Tying together the previous few posts, I can now go and import my RSS bandit OPML file into Vista's RSS store by using MSH and doing;   MSH C:\Users\mtaulty> get-filepath     "Import OPML File"     "OPML Files (*.opml)|*.opml|All Files (*.*)|*.*" Read More
posted Friday, January 13, 2006 6:34 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Generating RSS Subscriptions from Monad

  To take the previous posts a little further I went ahead and wrote another command let which will take an outline from OPML and will create an RSS subscription from it.   Again, not sure that this is the "right" thing to do - just playing here;   using Read More
posted Friday, January 13, 2006 4:24 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Consuming an OPML file from Monad

Continuing by "beginner's Monad theme" ( where I am the beginner ) I had a go at consuming an OPML file from Monad.   Now, I'm a beginner on so many levels here. Firstly, I don't understand OPML so I went to try and find a spec (think I ended up at www.opml.org). Read More
posted Friday, January 13, 2006 4:13 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Getting a filename interactively from Monad

  I wanted to grab a filename from the user so I wrote another little Monad Cmdlet that did that with the file open dialog, very basic and I'm sure you're not meant to do this from Monad but "it was there" so I did it so that I can go ahead and do something Read More
posted Friday, January 13, 2006 1:45 AM by Mike Taulty :: 2 Comments

RSS APIs from Monad

I took the idea of my previous post a little further by building a quick and easy Monad Cmdlet around the RSS API just to get my list of feeds.   A couple of notes - I've only spent 10 minutes with these recenty builds of Monad so this is not likely to Read More
posted Friday, January 13, 2006 1:28 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

New Typefaces/Fonts in Vista

  I'm not even sure what to call them - are they Typefaces or Fonts. No idea. All I can say is that the new "typefonts" :-) that I've seen in Vista are really, really nice.   I switched Visual Studio 2005 to use the new Consolas font as soon as I'd installed Read More
posted Friday, January 13, 2006 1:20 AM by Mike Taulty :: 2 Comments

RSS APIs in Vista?

  I've been struggling to find anything at all about the new RSS APIs in Windows Vista. I might have been missing it in the docs but I just didn't find anything.   Then I came across msfeeds.dll living in my c:\windows\system32 folder and went ahead and Read More