XtractPro - Data Extraction Magazine

Table with number of hyperlinks from other web pages to acquire a higher Page Rank. How many links you must get from websites with PR1-10 to obtain PR1-10 on your own site or blog.
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ASP.NET web control to implement a docking panel. The panel can stick to the top, bottom, left or right edges of its container, with a horizontal or vertical orientation. Collapsing and expanding the panel is done with animation. Multiple docking panels can be grouped together for an accordion effect (one only collapsed at a given time).
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Techniques and practical examples of building and using HTML panels with round corners or shadow effects. Most are implemented with a TABLE-based or DIV-based approach and use CSS styles. No server-side or JavaScript code required.
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Step-by-step design of an animated collapsible HTML panel, that you can use on your web site. Start with the designed of a nice TABLE and DIV-based fixed panel with thin border and caption text. Add gradient color background and shadow image. Add JavaScript code for collapse/expand actions and animation. Reverse-engineer similar panels from other websites.
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Automatically collects advertised jobs from job sites and company sites, and exposes combined aggregated results in new presentation format. Based on the generic web scrapper class, this demo presents the way data extracted from different sources can be mixed-up and exposed in different new ways.
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Tutorial on the multiple ways to send HTTP web requests in .NET and process returned web results and result streams. Demos with HttpWebRequest/Response classes, WebClient, ASP.NET Request/Response objects, and sending explicit HTTP requests from the socket level. Demistifying HTTP request and response headers.
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Dynamically extract and enhance data from the CNN Sports Illustrated web page with NHL's Standings. Very simple application usage of our generic web scrapper base class. This demo rather focuses on why web data extraction is sometimes necessary and how can extracted information be improved with some added value.
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Simple C# .NET base class for web scrappers based on sequential text parsing, for static HTML pages, which will be used in many future projects and articles from this magazine. We cover the basic navigation functionality, sequential static content parsing and data extraction. We add performance counters and tracing facilities. First demo, for online real-time scraping of some Yahoo!Movies tables.
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