Tortuga added a BlogPing class to the Tortuga .NET component to provide a simple API for pinging
services that track weblog updates. So far, Technorati.com and Weblogs.com are pinged, as demonstrated in the example below. Please notify me (Matt Fausey -- admin@worldwideweb-x.com) of other sites that should be added. This class will be available in the Tortuga .NET Download as of 1-Oct-2005.
Tortuga.BlogPing ping = new Tortuga.BlogPing();
// These properties default to true anyway, but we'll set them here anyway
// to demonstrate that each service can be turned on/off.
ping.Technorati = true;
ping.Weblogs = true;
// Ping all services that are turned on and return the number of
// successful pings.
string blogUrl = "http://www.geekswithblogs.net/chilkat";
string blogName = "Blogger and News Syndication Software";
int successCount = ping.Ping(blogUrl,blogName);
MessageBox.Show("successCount = " + Convert.ToString(successCount));