PONGen - Programmable OneNote Notebook Generator
v. 1.1.1979.22423 - Download
Many changes:
- Fully templated: Feeds and parsing are now independent (~97%) of the app itself. Look in the (default) project file, TechEdScheduler.xml for a look at how the TechEd notebooks were created. First section points to and names each data feed. Right now, only RSS style XML feeds are supported, though that will be easy to change to any quasi-tabular XML stream. Notice the four Teched RSS feeds are mashed together into one big bloated feed called "main" (The Breakout feed alone clocks in at a half meg.) The second section defines a table into which feed data and/or substrings will be mashed, one line of data per posting. The third section lists parse commands that define how data items in the source feed are to be processed and dumped into the table defined in the section above. The final section lists a pile of static HTML pages to be downloaded and pumped into various notebooks, as well as templates for how each row of data is to be represented in the notebooks. If you don't want to see descriptions or prefer different font sizes, whatever, muck about with the formattedOutput strings (see String.Format help info for, well, help).
- Most importantly, in an effort to maintain good relationships with Microsoft, I have decided to change my first attempt at an icon for this application for a second, less infringing icon. I no longer baldly "pay homage to" the Microsoft OneNote application icon. Now I "pay homage to" the great game of Pong.
Version 1.0 icon:
Version 1.1 icon:
I'm sure you all will heave a sigh of relief. Actual user interface will be forthcoming.
