James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience of over half a million unique developers. In July '08 James left his job as Head of Development at a digital agency in London to focus his energies on developerFusion full-time.
WebZinc also provides FTP features which lets you upload files to a server, and even replaces tags in a HTML page with content from another webpage before uploading them. Also provided is a simple class to return whether the user is connected to the internet, and show the dial up dialog to connect to the internet. Simple things like this save an immense amount of extra programming that you almost certainly need to do yourself anyway.
In fact, my only critiscm is the fact that you have to complete the SerialNumber property for every instance of WebZinc - they suggest you use a global instance of the WebZinc class, which gets around this, but you still wonder why they can't do it some other way that doesn't involve writing extra code for us programmers!
All in all, an excellent product, especially for a first release, and immensly useful for either webmasters wanting to add 'live' content to their site, or a programmer wanting to integrate internet content into their applications. What's more, at $150, its reasonably priced too.
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