Help: Retrieve thread titles in forum. C#

CioNide · Aug 18, 2010

I need help on retrieving thread titles from the MapleStory Advertisement section, and also turning them into links to produce a list in C#.

It's the last step on my application.

SaintsIan · Aug 18, 2010

You can fetch the thread titles and/or content of threads through the RSS feeds, e.g. <![CDATA[RaGEZONE - MMORPG server development forums - Coders' Paradise]]>. There's a few guides out there on fetching RSS data with C# (like:

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), so no doubt this should be feasible for you. Good luck.

EDIT: For MapleStory Advertisement section - http://forum.ragezone.com/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=429

CioNide · Aug 18, 2010

SaintsIan said:
You can fetch the thread titles and/or content of threads through the RSS feeds, e.g. <![CDATA[RaGEZONE - MMORPG server development forums - Coders' Paradise]]>. There's a few guides out there on fetching RSS data with C# (like:
You must be registered to see links
), so no doubt this should be feasible for you. Good luck.

EDIT: For MapleStory Advertisement section - RaGEZONE - MMORPG server development forums - MapleStory Servers

But how to make the output to my listbox?
That's the struggle.

xSilv3rbullet · Aug 19, 2010

Use WebClient to fetch the HTML, remove the header, then use PREG functions.

CioNide · Aug 19, 2010

xSilv3rbullet said:
Use WebClient to fetch the HTML, remove the header, then use PREG functions.

WebClient?

foxx · Aug 19, 2010

It would be stupid to fetch html when there are feeds, which is basically xml..

SaintsIan · Aug 19, 2010

foxx said:
It would be stupid to fetch html when there are feeds, which is basically xml..

Thanks for reiterating my point, anyways, like I said, you can have a look through Google for a few tutorials and examples. It would be difficult for me to explain it here in elaborate detail.

xSilv3rbullet · Aug 19, 2010

SaintsIan said:
Thanks for reiterating my point, anyways, like I said, you can have a look through Google for a few tutorials and examples. It would be difficult for me to explain it here in elaborate detail.

I just checked your link...
Anyone else notice an uncanny resemblance to his app?
...other than the old Win2k theme, that is.

alphaest · Sep 4, 2010

you can use any windows list box to show them. Use a xml parser to parse the feed, then just loop over the elements inside the main node and list.add(new MyLink(...));

class mylink : ListItemOrSomethingLikeThat
{
...
}

and then make a onclick event to all those items and retrieve the class

on_click_event(object sender, eventargs args)
{
MyLink item = listbox.Selecteditem as MyLink;
process.run(item.link);
}

Help: Retrieve thread titles in forum. C#

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