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Eclectrics is a high-tech consulting firm located in Hillsboro, Oregon. With a highly-skilled, nimble team that can expand as a project demands, we focus on two areas of expertise:
Software Development
- Getting the Current Weather Conditions - Unlike weather forecasts which are available for any point in the US, current conditions are only available for specific spots where there are reporting stations. The good news is that there are more than 2000 reporting stations, so it’s not too hard to find one close to you. In this installment I am going to [...]
- XmlTreeView – A Custom Painted TreeView - Last time I described how to build a WCF client for the NDFD web service. The gist was we needed to create a custom TextMessageEncoder that could handle the ISO-8859-1 encoding used by the service. With that done, it’s time to start thinking about how to use all the data to which we now have [...]
- Consuming NDFD Web Services from a C# Client - I like to know what the weather is going to be – it sets the tone for the day. But it is getting more difficult to get access to weather forecasts from the local television stations. Clearly lots of folks must tune in just for the weather because there seem to be this cat-and-mouse game [...]