Weather.com Broke Something
Posted in Development
It seems weather.com has broken the cardinal rule of never, ever, ever changing an interface exposed to the public.
Today, all of a sudden, the weather server control I wrote eons ago started throwing exceptions. Charles was very quick to find and post a solution. I’ve updated and recompiled the control just enough to get it to work again.
I’m amazed that this control garnered such a following over time. A couple of times a week I get emails from folks asking for source code of the Location ID resolver (which I’m happy to provide) or looking for the right location ID of their town. The latter happens because weather.com doesn’t have all towns of the world in their database, so I always recommend finding a neighboring city or landmark.
Bear with me. I will completely rewrite the control. Some time soon.
Charles, thank you again!
2 comments
Milan Negovan
on July 20, 2009
Matthew, the DLL you downloaded is the latest one. I had to make a small update to the code because of a breaking change by weather.com.
Please feel free to contact me directly if I you need help with code or troubleshooting.
Matthew Brown
on July 20, 2009
Can someone send me the new DLL? I tried downloading the latest ZIP and the file modified 07/07/09. Now the site page does not load once replacing the DLL.