Facebook Messaging
Lots of commentary on the web today regarding Facebook’s new Messaging product…. Announcement on facebook blog Facebook Messages Tour Good write-up at Techcrunch Facebook stats from Techcrunch Lifehacker on why ...
Facebook, C# and ASP.NET MVC – Updated code samples for places, wall and offline access
The big news a couple of weeks ago was the opening up of the Facebook Places API and launching a Deals Service as well. The Places API is pretty straightforward ...
Facebook, C# and ASP.NET MVC – Code samples for friends list, activities list and wall posts
A few weeks back I wrote about the official C# SDK from Facebook and provided some sample code demonstrating how to use it to get some basic information about the ...
Facebook C# – Sample ASP.NET application and access tokens
Put together another quick sample app, this time for ASP.NET 4.0, instead of MVC. I’ve also added an example of how to post to a user’s wall, using the Facebook ...
Official Facebook C# SDK Released
Looks like a brand new SDK to play with for facebook. While they have other sdks for python, php, javascript, etc, this is their first official C# SDK. Previously the ...
Fixing Facebook IE problems
A friend of mine ran into this IE problem recently and it reminded me of one of the early snags I hit when developing a facebook application with the Open Graph API. IE is much more finicky about cross domain requests than other browsers, which can cause issues when authenticating with Facebook. The primary symptom of this problem is that a user can login to your site using the Facebook login button and firefox or chrome, but cannot log in via IE. The trick is that you need to also set the Base Domain field to handle multiple subdomains. So, if your Connect URL was http://www.somesite.com/, you’d set your Base Domain field to somesite.com.
Converting a Facebook Connect site to Open Graph step by step
A few weeks back I decided to upgrade one of my web apps to the Open Graph API. Previously it was running on Facebook Connect and using the Facebook Developers ...