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Technical Background

* flickrAide is based on the Flickr API, a public service provided of the Flickr staff.
* It also uses portions of FlickrNET, a package for Microsoft .NET developers that makes it easier to use the Flickr API
* flickrAide is written in Visual C# and with Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
* For anyone interested, I will occasionally make the source code public: Beta 7 code.

I have replaced FlickrNET with my own code to access Flickr. That's because FlickrNET has some bugs and I won't wait until they get fixed. I decided to re-implement just those parts that flickrAide needs. Still I'm using portions of FlickrNET, thanks for that!

Some information is not provided by the Flickr API, so I wrote a workaround to get that information of the Flickr web pages instead. It's slow, but since flickrAide is not a "live" application and already runs a long time when retrieving data, it doesn't really matter. Hopefully one day we get this information faster with the Flickr API.

You can check the code and use ideas and techniques if they are useful for you. But, of course, please don't use it to distribute your own, modified version of flickrAide.

If you have any remarks or ideas regarding the code, please let me know through the public group on Flickr here.

Cheers,
Walter