eBay Developer Newsletter


March 28, 2007



	top stories



	Star Developer Awards for DevCon Send nominations in for Star Developer Awards by Monday, April 2nd! award noms >



	USPS rate change coming in early May API Impact to AddItem calls and Sandbox testing by end of April. breaking change >



	API call for Product Reviews & Guides NEW GetProducts call retrieves catalog information on a variety of products. read story >

Early Bird Discount for eBay DevCon in Boston ends Friday, April 6th!
Join us for eBay Developers Conference 2007, June 11-13. Register before April 6th and pay only $350 - a 40% savings! register now>



	technical alerts & product news

Warnings for Deprecated Input Fields
As of late March, we've just enhanced our WarningLevel mechanism to help you identify deprecated objects that you pass in requests. This information can be useful when you upgrade to newer versions of the schema. Just set WarningLevel to High when you're testing your application, and we'll tell you if you're sending us any deprecated or unrecognized fields. See the API version 505 Release Notes for details. Please read our eBay Schema Versioning Strategy document for details on how objects are deprecated. read update >

Big Improvements in API Docs: applicable enumerations
If the raw Schema Docs have been your main reference, you may want to check out the big improvements our API Docs team has been making to our Input/Output reference. John Darrow from API documentation gives you a quick tour of I/O reference and how it reflects useful relationships between fields and API calls. view improvements > then let John know what you think >

Simpler Ticket Finder for Buyer Tools
Exposing event ticket deals on eBay US, UK, and Germany has been made easier than ever before. All it takes is one API call to access all event ticket listings on eBay. Just call GetSearchResults and use the new TicketFinder to pull relevant ticket listing data based on location, date, event type, and/or number of tickets. get code >

developer community

Get Ready for Boston: Founders Chat with Pierre Omidyar of eBay and Scott Cook of Intuit @ DevCon 2006
What motivated you to start your company? What inspires you to create better tools? For Pierre Omidyar, it was the opportunity to create a level playing field. For Scott Cook, well, his wife complained about doing the bills! As we get ready for the 2007 conference in Boston, we thought we'd share some highlights from last year's conference. In this clip, Chris Anderson of "The Long Tail" chats with Pierre and Scott, as they share their stories about how they founded eBay and Intuit. view the clip > then register to join us at eBay DevCon 2007, June 11-13 in Boston! >

Developer Forums Thread of Every Other Week
Recently in the eBay Web Services forum, PHP5 developer digitalsalesdepot was looking for tips about sending invoices using raw XML versus SOAP on Apache. Fellow developers steelerubber and slomike1 responded with helpful advice. One last question on the table: " Do I need respond with a 200 OK status HTTP status?" view the thread and post your tip >



	categories & item specifics

Mid-April category changes
Six categories -- Cameras & Photo, Coins & Paper Money, Collectibles, Computers & Networking, Consumer Electronics, Sports Memorabilia, Cards & Fan Shop -- will have brand new category structure changes. check updates >

Late March changes to Item Attributes in Consumer Electronics
As of late March, there will be eight item attribute changes made in the Consumer Electronics category. check updates >

product updates

API Version: 505/503i

USPS Rate Change

Search by Item Condition

Java SDK 503 pt. release

.NET SDK 503 pt. release

events

April 15-18: Web 2.0 Expo
April 24-25: Grid Computing for Financial Services
June 11-13: eBay DevCon

developer pulse

Most popular codebase projects
1) eBay SDK for .NET
2) Code Samples (14 languages and platforms)
3) PayPal Toolkits (PHP, ASP.NET, ASP, Cold Fusion & Perl)
4) eBay SDK for Java
5) PHP Accelerator Toolkit

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