Yay! I saw your blog show up in my RSS feeds today and got all excited. Loving all your posts!

That is all. Hope you are doing well.

Hi
I've just seen your article on CodeProject, congratulations for your work, even if it's not really useful for me in Europe ;) But I'd be very interested to see how you created a library to communicate with DHL and Fedex as I had to do that too a few months ago (and for UPS also).
Can't wait to see your code ^^

Cheers.
Laurent

Hi There,

I have downloaded your USPS source code from Codeproject for USPS web wrapper tool, but i am not able to test it properly can you provide me how you are generating the USPS shipping label. Also do you have any idea how we can generate the UPS shipping label using ASP.NET. do you have any sample code or link where i can see that how they are creating.

Thanks & Regards
Prabhat

Hiya Scott. Working on a similar project I just downloaded and started tinkering with your USPS code. I was going to write everything from scratch just as a matter of principal, but you've done a fine job with this as a place for anyone to start.

Just an FYI, I've added some code to Address.FromXml(string xml). The reason will be obvious. HTH, and thank you very much. element = doc.SelectSingleNode("/CityStateLookupResponse/ZipCode/Zip5");
if ( element != null )
a._Zip = element.InnerText;
element = doc.SelectSingleNode("/CityStateLookupResponse/ZipCode/City");
if ( element != null )
a._City = element.InnerText;
element = doc.SelectSingleNode("/CityStateLookupResponse/ZipCode/State");
if ( element != null )
a._State = element.InnerText;


element = doc.SelectSingleNode("/ZipCodeLookupResponse/Address/Address1");
if ( element != null )
a._Address1 = element.InnerText;
element = doc.SelectSingleNode("/ZipCodeLookupResponse/Address/Address2");
if ( element != null )
a._Address2 = element.InnerText;
element = doc.SelectSingleNode("/ZipCodeLookupResponse/Address/City");
if ( element != null )
a._City = element.InnerText;
element = doc.SelectSingleNode("/ZipCodeLookupResponse/Address/State");
if ( element != null )
a._State = element.InnerText;
element = doc.SelectSingleNode("/ZipCodeLookupResponse/Address/Zip5");
if ( element != null )
a._Zip = element.InnerText;
element = doc.SelectSingleNode("/ZipCodeLookupResponse/Address/Zip4");
if ( element != null )
a._ZipPlus4 = element.InnerText;Also, I got a little tired of random failures from the USPS servers, at least during testing, so I've modified the routines in the USPSManager as follows: string addressxml = "";

for ( int i = 0 ; i < 3 ; i++ )
{
addressxml = web.DownloadString(url);
if ( addressxml.Contains("<Error>") )
{
// try a few times in case there is a flukey error
if ( i >= 2 ||
addressxml.IndexOf("<Number>80040b1a</Number>") > -1 || // authorization failure
addressxml.IndexOf("<Number>-2147219040</Number>") > -1 // data not on test server
)
{
int idx1 = addressxml.IndexOf("<Description>") + 13;
int idx2 = addressxml.IndexOf("</Description>");
int l = addressxml.Length;
string errDesc = addressxml.Substring(idx1 , idx2 - idx1);
throw new USPSManagerException(errDesc);
}
else
{
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(250);
}
}
}That allows it to pause and retry a couple times just to make sure errors are real. Finally, unless you know a reason why not, I'm going to externalize the error messages passed through USPSManagerException. Someone might want to localize the hardcoded English text, and I feel a need to lookup and verify the character limits placed on address and city fields. Some addresses simply won't fit those fields and it wouldn't be good form to exclude some data from cleansing just because someone has a large address or some municipality doesn't fit the arbitrary limits.

Regards.

Scott I just came across this "USPS Web Tools Wrapper". I tried downloading the source code from code project but some of the files are having some problem. Can you please send me the source code if possible. i would really appreciate it.

Thanks,

Jupi

when are you going to post ur dhl and fedex code...and plz put a paypal button for voluntary contribution. We love you ! thx

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