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Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

You're reading from   Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide Build custom plugins, extensions, modules and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467119
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jaswant Tak Jaswant Tak
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting to Grips with the Moodle 3 Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Moodle Plugins - What Can I Plug In? 3. Internal Interfaces 4. Course Management 5. Creative Teaching - Developing Custom Resources and Activities 6. Managing Users - Letting in the Crowds 7. Creating a Dashboard - Developing a Learner Homepage 8. Creating a New Skin 9. Moodle Analytics Appendix

Connecting to an XML-RPC API

As with PHP, the C# language provides a huge number of libraries--both proprietary and third-party--that provide everything from basic string handling to image manipulation. To connect to the XML-RPC API in Moodle, we will use the XML-RPC library developed by Charles Cook--check out http://cookcomputing.com/blog/index.html for details. The component we need is CookComputing.XmlRpcV2.dll. To install this component, download the relevant DLL, and in the Solution Explorer, right-click on References and select the Add Reference... option:

Browse to locate the DLL and follow the instructions to import it. A new reference to CookComputing.XmlRpcV2 will be added to the project:

Go back to the application's Windows form and double-click on the button. This will add a new method to harness.cs to support the button click event. This is where we will need...

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