Publishing KbAlertz.com on your website
Now, on to the tools to pubish kbAlertz on your website!!
A number of webmasters have asked if they could some how use content from
kbAlertz.com. We published an XML feed for the KB Summaries by Technology
and then my good friend Scott Watermasyk
picked up wrote a couple of very easy to understand, and well
documented samples to consume the feed on an ASP.NET page.
The XML KB Summary Data Feed
Most of the Data Feeds coming from KbAlertz will be filtered by a Technology.
For example, you might only want to publish the latest Kb Articles relating to
Windows 2000. To do that, you will need to know the Technology Name and the
corresponding Technology ID.
Currently I have only 1 Data Feed available at KbAlertz.com. This feed can be
found at http://kbalertz.com/websvc/latestkbs.aspx
This Url will take you to a XML document that will publish the latest Kb
Articles for a given technology. This Url accepts 2 parameters “t” and “c”.
Here is an example:
http://kbalertz.com/websvc/latestkbs.aspx?t=227&c=10
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t
stands for the Technology ID and
-
c stands for the count of articles to be returned.
In this example t=227 which stands for Windows 2000 and is returning the latest
10 kb articles.
Here is a list of Technology Id’s
The XML Technology Data Feed
http://kbalertz.com/websvc/technologies.aspx.
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TechnologyId - The
ID of the Technology Field.
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TechnologyCode - A
alphanumeric code of the technology (reserved for furture use).
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TechnologyName - The name of the technology.
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DateLastScanned - The date the technology was last scanned against Microsoft.
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DateStartedScanning - The date Microsoft created this technology for
scanning.
Additional Notes
The datafeeds are both in
the format of an ADO.NET DataSet. The easiest way to publish this dataset on
your website is to use ASP.NET. If you aren’t familiar with ASP.NET, I suggest
you go to www.123aspx.com and browse the Tutorials section.
Current Sites Using this service
Once you add this service to your website, feel free to send me an email, and I
will list your site.
(If you send me an email, and you don't see your site here in a few days, feel
free to keep reminding me. Trust me, I won't get irritated. If you are kind
enough to put kbAlertz on your site, I WANT TO LIST YOU HERE!!!
But, I get hundreds of emails everyday, and sometimes it gets lost. Sorry.)
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