Visual C# Express application ScreenSaver

benmiller — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 01:16:00 GMT

Just wanted to post my successes on working on the Visual C# Express project. I modified a ScreenSaver program that came from the template that is installed with Visual C# Express. It has an RSS Feed that gets loaded from a application setting in the .config file pointing to a main feed of an RSS (but could just as well point to the individual's RSS Feed.

The thing that I modified on it was to use the RegEx libraries to remove the HTML tags and the   stuff so that when you saw the description on the screen, that you did not see tags, but just text.

I was talking to Brad Abrams about the project and how it was displaying the tags and I thought, well, why don't we just remove it so it would just show the text. So I set out to do just that.

I have completed the project, thanks to some Regular Expressions from RegExLib.com. Great stuff there. If anyone wants the finished project, let me know and I will post it up here or somewhere you can get to.

I have definitely decided that I am jumping in now and doing more Whidbey stuff so that I can catch up with my MVP's.

More to come from BorCon as we still have 1 more full day.

How do I change the value in an XsltArgumentList

benmiller — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:44:00 GMT

I encountered a customer today with a question. Remember I am at BorCon this week.

The question was around the XsltTransform and using parameters. So I quickly looked up the object and the method of Tranform and found that indeed I could pass parameters in an XsltArgumentList. Now the question was this. If I am using the same xslt and the same parameters (obviously), but want to just change the value of the parameter for another run, how do I do this?

So I looked up the XsltArgumentList and found that there is an AddParam, and a GetParam, and a RemoveParam, but there no reference to an indexer, or anything that would allow me to change the value of the parameter without doing a RemoveParam and an AddParam. Then there is the curious GetParam and it returning an Object instead of a type of like say XsltArgument so that you can just change the value or the namespace without removing and re-adding with a new value.

Are there any takers? I could not find anything on it and it would be great to learn a little more about a space that I have little experience in.

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Visual C# Express application ScreenSaver

How do I change the value in an XsltArgumentList