Essential Facebook Programming: Building a Windows Client

摘要

In my previous column I discussed the basics of Facebook programming in the context of a Web site-specifically an ASP.NET MVC Web site (you can read the article at msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/jj863128). As you can imagine, the use of the Facebook API isn't limited to Web apps, even though one of its most common uses is just to authenticate users of a new Web site in a "softer" manner. In this column I'll build a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client app that uses the Facebook API to authenticate users and post updates with pictures. Because the Web is a different environment from the desktop, this column obviously will be different from what I wrote last month. The Facebook API, however, is the same. You can get the Facebook C# SDK via NuGet (see facebookapi.codeplex.com for more details on the Facebook API for C#/.NET developers).