Visual Basic example program using the Tortuga Movable Type ActiveX Component get trackback information for an existing post.
The Tortuga Beta ActiveX can be downloaded from
Tortuga ActiveX
The download contains an ActiveX DLL that needs to be registered using regsvr32.exe. You may then import the "Tortuga ActiveX" into your VB project.
The DLL contains objects for RSS, Atom, Blogger 2.0, Blogger 1.0, MetaWeblog, Technorati, Yahoo! Site Explorer, and Web Search.
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' Use the Blogger 1.0 API to get the Blog ID
Dim b1 As New Blogger1
b1.Login = "admin"
b1.Password = ""****""
b1.ServiceUrl = "http://www.anotherblog.com/blog/xmlrpc.php"
b1.GetUsersBlogs
blogId = b1.GetBlogId(0)
Dim mt As New MovableType
mt.Login = "admin"
mt.Password = "****"
mt.ServiceUrl = "http://www.anotherblog.com/blog/xmlrpc.php"
' Get the trackbacks for specific post.
postId = "4"
mt.GetTrackbackPings postId
' Display the trackbacks for this post.
' Display each trackback title, trackback URL, and trackback IP address.
n = mt.NumTrackbacks
For i = 0 To n - 1
List1.AddItem mt.GetTrackbackTitle(i)
List1.AddItem mt.GetTrackbackUrl(i)
List1.AddItem mt.GetTrackbackIP(i)
List1.AddItem "----"
Next