“In December 2004 the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) unveiled a Web service for accessing weather forecasts for locations within the United States. The Web service provides two methods:
NDFDgen(latitude, longitude, detailLevel, startTime, endTime, weatherParametersToReturn)- returns a range of weather information for a particular latitude and longitude between a start and end time. The weatherParametersToReturn input parameter dictates what weather information should be returned, such as: maximum temperature, minimum temperature, three hour temperature, snowfall amount, wind speed, and so on.NDFDgenByDay(latitude, longitude, hourlyFormat, startDate, numberOfDays)- returns 12-hour or 24-hour weather information for a particular latitude/longitude starting from a certain date and extending a specified number of dates into the future.
When reading up on this new Web service, I stumbled across Mikhail Arkhipov's blog entry titled Weather Forecast ASP.NET User Control, which provides a User Control written in C# for displaying the seven-day forecast for a particular latitude and longitude. While Mikhail's User Control definitely fit the bill for a simple forecast display in a C# Web application, I was tempted to provide similar functionality in a custom, compiled server control, which would allow the weather forecasts to be displayed in VB.NET Web applications as well. Additionally, I wanted to add some additional customization not found in Mikhail's solution.
The remainder of this article examines my custom control, MultiDayForecast…”
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/030205-1.aspx
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