Check Paypal account balance and transactions via C# API
After we had a look at how to sent push notifications via C# recently, there are plans for the next C# article today. This time it’s about how to read account balance, sales and transactions and other things of a Paypal account.
First some basic information. Although Paypal is an “online account”, in many ways it differs from an online (giro) account of a “classic” bank. For example, Paypal does not support the Homebanking Computer Interface (HBCI) to retrieve account information or send payments. Instead, Paypal offers different APIs (REST, SOAP, + SDKs, …), which differ not only in structure and technology, but especially in the range of functions. For our purposes we will use the so-called “NVP / SOAP API” and connect to it […]
In today’s article, we’ll look at how to push notifications out of C# onto smartphones or other devices. It does not matter if it is an Android or an Apple / iOS device. But when do you need such functionality?
In the past, there were more and more – the websites on which a specific action was allowed to run only X times a day. Today, it’s more like geo-blocking – locking out certain users based on their country of origin. However, both variants are based on the same technique: the evaluation of the IP address. In the first case, accesses from an IP address are counted (in addition to cookies) – in the second case, a database is used to evaluate where in the world the user behind a specific IP address is staying. Both locks can often be bypassed by changing the IP address.
Round about 8 months ago, I release the last WordPress2Doc update. Some may have thought that the project has fallen asleep. But that is not the case.
Today, we will dive into some more theoretical stuff. The topic of this article will be field lengths of database fields for addresses. For every second database I create, I am faced with the same problem: How long / “big” do I actually make the database fields for addresses? So fields, such as first name, surname, street, e-mail address, etc.