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Post #2: Use the .NET TweetSharp Library to Integrate with Twitter via OAuth
Today’s post is the second in a series explaining how to integrate TweetSharp into your .NET application using OAuth. In our first post we covered the basics of registering a new application with Twitter. This post will cover how you ask, then grant access from someone’s Twitter account to your new application using OAuth.
New Series: Use the .NET TweetSharp Library to Integrate with Twitter via OAuth
This is the first post on a new series I will be posting on integrating TweetSharp into your .NET applications. It will also show you how to use OAuth, as all the examples will be connecting to Twitter via OAuth.
What Language Would You Recommend To a Beginner?
Someone asked me an interesting question earlier this week that got me thinking quite a bit. Someone had a son that was interested in building web based applications and wanted to know what they should learn first. The answer to this question could have many answers depending on who it was asked to. Should they start [...]
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 2 Available
If you are a MSDN subscriber I just wanted to pass along a quick note that Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 are available for download. I played around with Beta 1 a little bit and ran across some issues with Visual Studio. Hopefully these have been addressed in Beta 2.
Clean web.config Files in .NET 4.0
If you have experience in programming in ASP.NET over the last few years, I am sure you have noticed how bloated the web.config file has become. Most of it is very confusing looking lines of various calls to load modules and handlers. It appears that is changing in .NET 4.0. Microsoft guru Scott Guthrie is [...]
Installing Visual Studio SP1 on Windows 7
Since installing Windows 7 RTM I have been slowly reinstalling all of my development programs. The only one that has given me a fit has been SP1 for Visual Studio 2008. The base program installed just fine, but SP1 failed every time. Even after trying some suggestions I saw while searching, nothing worked. But, earlier [...]
.NET: Need To Drop The Span Tag From the Label Control? Use the Literal Control Instead
Have you ever had the need to use a label control, but you don’t need the span tag that the control automatically wraps around the text? Switch your control over to the Literal control instead. It serves the same general purpose as the label control, but will not wrap your output in those pesky span [...]
.NET: Converting a String to a GUID
This is just a quick little tip I came across yesterday. I was reading a Guid value out of a database and then passing it to .NET service along with some other data. The column type in the SQL Server database was a standard VARCHAR field, while the service itself was expecting a Guid data [...]
.NET – Use VB Functions in C#
Yesterday I was working on a .NET website that has a couple of cost calculators in them. The user inputs 10 or so data points and the application will calculate their costs and savings. While working on some validation of the user submitted data, I need to make sure all fields were numeric in value. [...]
ColdFusion & .NET: Comparing List Functions
It’s been awhile since I have added a new post to the series that compares code in ColdFusion & .NET. Today’s post covers something I use quite a bit throughout some of my applications: storing values in a list type format. If you have programmed in ColdFusion for years, you take the built in list [...]
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