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Last July, I blogged about how to do OAuth in Windows 8 with LINQ to Twitter: http://geekswithblogs.net/W... A the time, that worked well, but was still not an optimal solution. It required setting up a page to handle a WebBrowser control, navigating to that page, authorizing, and then asked the user to copy a PIN into a text box to complete the dance. You still have to do that with desktop and Windows Phone apps, but not with Windows ......
When first working with the Twitter API, I thought that using SinceID would be an effective way to page through timelines. In practice it doesn’t work well for various reasons. To explain why, Twitter published an excellent document that is a must-read for anyone working with timelines: Twitter Documentation: Working with Timelines This post shows how to implement the recommended strategies in that document by using LINQ to Twitter. You should read the document in it’s entirety before moving on because ......
Giovanni Bassi published the original NuGet package for LINQ to Twitter (L2T), which I'm appreciative of. Since then, I have yet to do a release myself, but that is changing now. The current version of LINQ to Twitter is stable enough for a release, so the time is right. I think there are a few aspects of a LINQ to Twitter NuGet package that aren't as simple as point at a project and your done, so I'll document my process here in case anyone else is interested. Getting Started I had played around ......
Here's a blog post by DataSprings on how to use LINQ to Twitter: http://bit.ly/jjmLZY. It demonstrates how to authenticate with OAuth and how to use several of the APIs.
Joe
Now that Mix11 is over, Microsoft’s next big conference is Tech-Ed 2011, which happens May 16th through May 19th in Atlanta, GA. Each of Microsoft’s conferences have a theme; Mix is about the Web, PDC is about new and upcoming technologies, and there are many more. The focus of Tech-Ed is on current Microsoft technologies. In other words, you would go there to learn about the software that you can use today to get your work done. If you haven’t been there yet, Atlanta is a nice city and the surrounding ......
I released LINQ to Twitter Beta v2.0.20: http://goo.gl/1i97X. Most of the items were bug fixes. A couple items were new: Geo Search and I finished adding Asynch support for non-Silverlight APIs.
Joe
LINQPad is a popular utility for .NET developers who use LINQ a lot. In addition to standard SQL queries, LINQPad also supports other types of LINQ providers, including LINQ to Twitter. The following sections explain how to set up LINQPad for making queries with LINQ to Twitter. LINQPad comes in a couple versions and this example uses LINQPad4, which runs on the .NET Framework 4.0. 1. The first thing you'll need to do is set up a reference to the LinqToTwitter.dll. From the Query menu, select query ......
Today, I added a new extensibility feature to LINQ to Twitter, called Raw Queries. The Twitter API has historically changed suddenly and without warning, leaving 3rd party libraries, such as LINQ to Twitter deficient in full support. On occasion, LINQ to Twitter encounters bugs that leave users without a means for accomplishing specific tasks. Therefore, we need work arounds to allow users to quickly adapt to changes and new features. Raw queries include two points of extensibility: the ability to ......
Today, I released LINQ to Twitter v2.0.8. Besides normal maintenance, this release includes the Twitter Geo API and the Suggested Users API. LINQ to Twitter is hosted on CodePlex.com: http://linqtotwitter.codepl... In addition to new functionality, I've made much progress toward LINQ to Twitter documentation; primarily in the Making API Calls area: http://linqtotwitter.codepl... There's also a discussion forum where you can ......
A lot of examples on LINQ to XML show how to translate from XML into objects. Especially with REST data sources, it seems like a lot of LINQ to XML is used to read XML. However, there is also a need to translate from objects to XML, which isn't always as intuitive. The following example shows a couple different ways to translate from objects to XML. It starts with a string for the XML document. There is also a List of Customer objects. This example translates the objects into XElement's and then ......
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