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My.Blogs Visual Studio Add-in Released

From Keyvan Nayyeri (full post here, Google action here):

Visual Basic team has given a collection of sample codes for dealing with blog contents in Visual Basic 2005:

My.Blogs is a collection of sample code that will show you how you can easily provide programmatic access to weblogs in the applications you build. The My.Blogs sample code supports reading from blogs feeds (including RSS 2.0, ATOM 1.0, and RDF 1.0) as well as posting entries to blog servers (using the MetaWebLog API).

Read their article about My.Blogs sample codes and download code samples. To install MSDN My extensions follow these instructions.

This looks like a cool add-in for VS, as well as a good primer on how to create your own custom My.<foo> extensions (I remember reading somewhere that a guy on the C# team was working on a comparable paradigm for C#; something along the lines of that.<foo>, but I can’t find the link) as the full source is provided as well. Unfortunately I have to emphasize the word “looks” in my previous sentence: When attempting to run the .vsi file I am getting the following error:

"Installation stopped because the directory for the ProjectType value did not exist. The project type is invalid for your installation of Visual Studio."

So I’m not able to get it installed and start playing around with it, and Google comes back with nada when searching for that exception (anyone have any thoughts?). Bummer. Anywho…enjoy.

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Only published comments... Dec 06 2005, 08:23 PM by Jayson Knight

Filed under: .Net, Visual Studio

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Keyvan Nayyeri said:

Excuse me for my delay to answer your comment. I was off in last days to university and was away when that crash happened! Although there is so far from our house but thanks for your attention ;) I installed MyBlogs projects successfully and didn't get this error. It gives you some seperate projects in \MSDN folder in "MyDocuments" (By default) I have no idea about this error :(

December 7, 2005 8:58 PM

SilentAcorn said:

Maybe it's caused by you change your "My Documents" folder location after install VS2005. The VSI setup try copy files to original folder "C:\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Teamplates\Visual Basic\", so you can resolve it by restore "My Documents" to original location, or create the "C:\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Teamplates\Visual Basic\" manually.

February 21, 2006 3:52 PM

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Jayson Knight was clueless to the computer programming world until he took a C++ class in college. The rest is proverbial history. He has been building applications targeting the .Net framework for 7 years, focusing mainly on internet technologies and database driven web application development.

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