Description:
Rightmove are the biggest UK property portal. For loading UK sales & lettings properties they provide a specification for sending properties to them and other portals using a BLM file.
What Was Done:
We built a windows service that extracts data from a property table in a database. The service then constructs a Rightmove v3.0 BLM file (delimited text file) and packages this with images referenced in the table to a ZIP file and deploys to a folder ready for transport to the RightMove FTP site.
The service can be configurable on:
1. The number of packages that are created for deployment ie there may be multiple locations we wish to send the BLM+image package
2. How often and when the service runs each day.
Technologies:
C# and VS 2010, windows service, XML, BLM
