I am trying to post a single tweet in my Windows phone application to any twitter account. I don't want to complicate my code using external libs or APIs. If they are unavoidable, I will include. I don't need to read any tweets or need to persist my connection. Its simple, The user supplies a username, password and a tweet message and hits tweet.
The famous temple run in iPhone has exactly what I need (screenshot below).
Please guide me in C#
This is possible via XAuth. The technique is not straight forward though, your request will have to go through the Twitter API team and once they approve they will give the xAuth Access. See this other SOF answer for more details.
If you want to integrate it like in you screenshot I think you need to communicate with the API yourself.
But there is the ShareStatusTask in the Microsoft.Phone.Tasks namespace.
With that users can share your status to the social media they configured.
Also check: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh394027(v=vs.92).aspx
You have two choices:
use the built-in ShareStatusTask
roll your own system.
The advantage of ShareStatusTask is that it is simple to implement and maintain.
For the user it is also a good solution as it will allow him to post the status on the social network of its choice and it avoids forcing him to authenticate again.
If you want to roll your own system, you'll have to deal with different problems:
user authentication (OAuth)
maintenance (sometimes Twitter like to change the way 3rd party apps
interact with them...)
Here is a tutorial that explains how to implement Twitter in a Windows Phone app.
Also Tweetsharp is a nice Twitter lib you can use
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My question is simple, but I cannot seem to find the answer with Google. I'm working on a Windows Phone 8 app and I would like to offer the possibility to share content with certain people in private. I will add a feature to send by SMS, but I would also like to offer the possibility to send a private message in Facebook.
There is a Facebook app for Windows Phone 8 and I wanted to know if there is a way with "App-to-app" communication to have the Facebook app send the message for me. This way, the user could edit the message and choose who to send it to, without my app having to manage this for him. I think it would be a better user experience than using the Facebook API since it would be consistent.
I looked online and there is a way to make a post. However, that's not what I want since my app handles a financial matters. Is there a simple way to do that ?
It depends not on your App but the Facebook App - if it supports such a feature.
In Windows Phone you can for example associate files and Uri's with certain Apps - MSDN source. By this it is possible (I think somehow) to pass a file (message) to other App (if that App supports it). Other problem may be where to save that file - maybe some webservice as IsolatedStorage is a bad idea.
It will be hard workaround, but surely depend mostly not on your App.
In this case I think it will be better to use Facebook API in your App.
Use Facebook to do post function like below
await Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("fb:post?text=foo"));
Or you need implement an OAuth flow to get Facebook token then do Post by Facebook post API
https://graph.facebook.com//v2.0/me/feed?message=foo&access_token={TOKEN}
I think these are the possible ways to achieve what you want.
I want to create a duumy application in which the user which is logged in(facebook) see his own facebook friend list and their details like gender, status, wall post etc. on my own application using Graph API?.
Is it possible if Yes then please suggest me how is it?
thanks
Yes, this is possible through connecting your application with Facebook's API. Your question is pretty general so I would recommend that you start reading the documentation and then ask a more specific question if you run into any problems.
External links:
Facebook Documentation
Facebook C# SDK
Can a .net app be made to pull twitter posts?
I am wondering if its possible to capture any of the posts made on twitter by any user? I am trying to obtain an unrestricted flow of tweets to use as sample data for statistical analysis.
I want to try to gauge the sentiment of topics such as "thanksgiving" or "global warming"
I was thinking on a high level I would be able to pull all tweets containing a "#thanksgiving" tag and save them to a SQL DB for analysis.
Is this a valid approach of that, or is there a better way? Is there a tool to do this already that will save me the development time?
You can use the Twitter API.
Specifically, this question contains the answer you'll need to get all tweets with a certain hashtag:
Twitter API - Display all tweets with a certain hashtag?
In terms of tools to do it with, TweetSharp is a C# wrapper for the Twitter API. I can't vouch for it though as I've never used it.
I was wondering, is there a way I can create an application which for example updates both my facebook and my twitter at the same time?
So for example I have a GUI which has a similar interface as my facebook profile (or whatever), and I want to post a comment on my profile through my GUI, so I write a line in a GUI textbox, press apply and it adds the post to my facebook profile and at the same time to my twitter for example.
I know this sounds silly since u can media link both pages, but that's not my true goal, I'm just wondering if this is possible so I can extend it to other facebook services.
See
facebook API
twitter API
And (.NET related) :
C# Facebook API
C# Twitter API(unofficial)
Yes, it is definitely possible. You would have to use the APIs exposed by Facebook and Twitter. You can then post let's say status on both twitter and facebook by calling update status related APIs of both Twitter and Facebook on the apply button click event.
You can use this for Twitter and this for Facebook both are C# clients for Twitter and Facebook respectively.
Yes it is. I don't see how this wouldn't be.
Also, I suggest you have a look at Seesmic Desktop for an application that does that which use Silverlight.
First time poster. Back to programming after being away for a few years, trying to clean off the rust. I'm creating a dashboard that will run initially on my laptop (Macbook Pro, 10.4.x O/S). Amongst other things I want it to retrieve latest information from my online accounts. I'm starting with html, but will probably migrate to something else (TBD, possibly ruby or c#). What would sample code look like for logging into account, going through specific account workflow, retrieve data/docs/other, and pull it back to be stored locally.
It is a little open-ended, apologies and thanks in advance.
Are you looking for something like Google Gears?
It depends on the kind of accounts you want to log onto.
For instance there is a Google has an specific API for that Google Accounts API, other services provide similar API's some other do not.
So it depends pretty much what are your "online accounts" all about and if they do provide a public API or not.
EDIT
As per your comment and for the products you've mentioned, I'll suggest your to start looking at browsers plugin development and to start understanding the HTTP protocol and all the related technologies around it ( HTTPS, encryption, authentication etc. )
The public API let you easily login into an account, but you don't really need one to do it ( although it make life much more simpler ) If you do not have a public API, you can still login into any account by "simply" doing what the browser does. Sending an HTTP(s) request with the appropriate security mechanism and following the protocol.
If you know how does the browser send the request and you have the user trusting your their passwords, the only remaining thing you have to do is ... :) code it.
As of now the question is too broad to be answered. Pick one service at a time and ask specific questions about it.
I would suggest you to start with the previously mentioned "Google Accounts" API and learn from there.
One open source product that already manages google account authentication is "Ubiquity" you can take a peak at their source code and start understanding how do they fetch the user contact list.