Saturday, December 7, 2013

Delphi to the rescue again

I couldn't find a good, free RSS feed manager, so I wrote my own in Delphi 7 a few years ago.  To assist with implementing Xibo digital signage at an elementary school, I was updating my RSS feed generator written in Delphi XE:



I had to modify the program to get the RSS feed from an URL (instead of using FTP).  A quick Google search "delphi xe save file from url" and found this gem from StackOverflow.  I thought it would be a quick fix, but I forgot the phrase "I imported the type library for WinHTTP, "  I eventually figured out how to do this and I was up and running quickly.

This is why real developers use Delphi to code real apps!  It's a lot more productive than using C++ or Java!


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