Hi Anash, I have since managed to move past this issue but are still encountering many issues that take an age to figure out and while yes I can try to get the VB.net library to work it's been 3 over years since i coded VB.net in anger and at the moment don't have the time to mess around trying to get something to compile so I can see some XML being sent to and frow.
As a side note, while trying to find answers from other issues raised I can see that I'm not the only one who would find having XML examples a massive boon. It seems rather abitrary to ignore something that's been available on previous API's and now that they've all been moonlighted there's going to be more developers needing some rudimentary XML examples, especially since 201109 is now so strick (and so so in it's errorrs on trying to debug). I know I'm ranting but It's been a very trying few days over a bunch of issues that would have been fairly easy to resolve with good, simple examples of what I'm trying to achieve in the documentation like there used to be. Oh and as for the example you gave, thanks for that it did work but opens up a different question regarding (attempts) at understanding the structure required as stated in the documentation, namely that bids is not explicitly the parent of the ManualCPCAdGroupBids, it reads as if AdGroupBids is the parent where the type is then set. That said I may have just missed an explanation of this behaviour. Regards, Oddball On Thursday, 29 March 2012 12:06:19 UTC+1, Anash P. Oommen wrote: > > Hi Oddball, > > Yes, AdWords API has xml validation enabled too, which means that order of > the nodes in the xml is also significant. Also, I'm not sure what you mean > by saying that we don't support xmls - when debugging an issue, we ask for > the raw SOAP xmls all the time, not the code in a particular programming > language. > > Also, could you tell me why you don't find the .NET library and the > vb.netcode useful? You could > > 1. Download the library. > 2. Modify one of the examples that does what you need to perform in vb.net > . > 3. Run the code example. > 4. Capture the SOAP xmls - instructions are at > http://code.google.com/p/google-api-adwords-dotnet/wiki/HowToCaptureSoapMessages > > 5. Compare the output xml and the handcoded xml you are sending to the API > servers. > > I understand this is not a very straightforward approach, but it is not > that difficult in practice. E.g. here's the SOAP xml I captured by > modifying the UpdateAdGroup.vb code example: > > > -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en
