YCC List Control is a generic utility Microsoft .NET control that handles many of the common operations associated with text lists. For users of other YCC products you will notice this is the same control used for the proxy list in YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker. YCC List Control is not used exclusively in any one program and I have used it many times in several personal and public programs. This control is useful for any application that requires the end user to load data into a list such as a proxy, password, or account information. As a reminder, this is a user control so it will not do you much good unless you are a programmer writing your own program.

YCC List Control instructions and source code can be downloaded from http://ycoderscookbook.com/code/YCC_List_Control.html.

YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker 2.2.1 has been released and can be found at http://ycoderscookbook.com/files/YCC Yahoo Bot Maker 2.2.1.zip. This release fixes a bug that wrote the domain after the password and not the username in the bots file. This release also provides better proxy error handling and a few other minor updates.

YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker 2.2.0 has been released and can be found at http://ycoderscookbook.com/files/YCC Yahoo Bot Maker 2.2.0.zip. The latest release adds ymail and rocketmail domain support, a new proxy list, and removes the regional servers. The regional servers were removed because they all now redirect to https://edit.yahoo.com and any benefit to regional servers is gone. I believe the biggest benefit to this release is the new proxy list which allows you to automatically cycle through your supplied proxy list and remove any bad proxies.

This release does not fix the double CAPTCHA bug but there were so many changes that I decided to go ahead with this release.

Version 2.2.0 (2/6/2009)
• Adjusted the CAPTCHA image to point to the correct location, this was due to a Yahoo! server change
• Changed POST variables
• Removed regional servers
• Changed update URL
• 999 error image and a link to a 999 error tutorial
• Better 999 handling
• Alternate email generated by default
• Fixed 1st queue item non-continue bug
• Added more queue item focus options
• Changed security questions
• Fixed radiobutton session save bug
• Added fully functional proxy list with auto removal of bad proxies
• yahoo.com, ymail.com, and rocketmail.com domains supported
• Random domains
• Domain names added to bots file
• Invalid (errored) proxies removed from queue automatically
• Many UI and minor bug fixes

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Download: http://ycoderscookbook.com/files/YCC Yahoo Bot Maker 2.2.0.zip

I believe I have all the 404 errors worked out now and everything is running smoothly. Once again if you see any problems let me know on Messenger at tansqrxatycc or by email at admin [at] ycoderscookbook.com

The new design has been long overdue and was spurred on by two main factors; FrontPage stopped working for me and the frames were causing complaints. The result you see now has been the result of many hours of work and it started about 4 months ago. I know I am proud of it but of course any parent would be proud of their children.

First of all I used to use Microsoft FrontPage for many years but due to either a server update or a FrontPage update, FrontPage refused to upload content starting about 8 months ago. Critical updates were still performed through FTP but I missed the built-in uploading in FrontPage so I started looking. I decided on Adobe Dreamweaver because it is an industry standard and I don’t want to go through the FrontPage upgrade mess again. I found that Dreamweaver has a learning curve and I had to take a 40 hour training course just to get familiar with it. Another difference is the heavy reliance on CSS. Starting out I only had a very basic understanding of CSS but after finishing the site I can now at least say that I am at the beginner level.

The second reason for upgrading is long standing problems with the site frames. The original design showed a webpage that looked like Yahoo! Messenger 7. At the time the best way to pull this off was to frame each side of the content. I still like the idea but I soon found out that others were having problems because they would pop into the middle of the site and things would break. This was partially reminded by having JavaScript redirect the page into the frame but I still received complains. As you will notice, the new site is now without frames and each page can stand alone. This is mostly done with Dreamweaver templates which keep all of the content consistent. Another downside to frames is Google and other search engines hated it. The new pages are now SEO optimized and should produce much better Google hits.

Once again I hope you enjoy the new design better and let me know if you would like to see something changed. I will think you are crazy because the site is perfect but your suggestion will be taken with great respect and I will do my best to make it even better.

If you are visiting any part of the site then you will notice some very dramatic changes to the look and feel of ycoderscookbook.com. This is a major update that replaces or renames just about every file on the site so there may be a few 404 errors lurking around and if so please let me know so I can fix them. I will explain tomorrow about the update and my rational.

Here is a short tutorial on the symptoms, description, and possible fixes for the famous “Unable to process request at this time — error 999” message from Yahoo! http://ycoderscookbook.com/999_Error.htm.