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 ...

Facebook and ASP.NET MVC

One of my personal projects is a facebook application using the Facebook Developer’s Toolkit and ASP.NET WebForms. There’s a number of good guides for using the toolkit out there (Devtacular ...

Silverlight 3 – Simple consumption of a WCF Service

Last night we were *supposed* to watch Monsters vs. Aliens but unfortunately those plans went out the window once I realized I was missing a credit card. I managed to ...

Getting started with Silverlight 3 – Hello Bouncing Ball

I’ve been playing with Silverlight 3 lately and thought I’d post a quick guide on getting started. Note that once installed you can only develop silverlight 3 applications since VS doesn’t ...

Big news day from Mix 09

Lots of news coming out of Mix 09…. ASP.NET MVC Released Scott Guthrie recently posted a great (and free) tutorial from his upcoming book here. Not a whole lot of ...

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