21. September 2009
ZeroKoll
Silverlight
Welcome back! Or at least I hope it is welcome BACK. If you are not coming back, that means that you have missed the first part of this blog series. And in that case, I recommend by starting out by reading the first part. If you have already done that…let’s get cracking…
In the first part, I focused on the connection to Twitter. That included implementing OAuth and the Twitter methods I need to get the client to run. In this part, which will be a lot shorter, I’m going to focus on creating a webservice that can expose the Twitter functionality to the Silverlight client.
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16. September 2009
ZeroKoll
Silverlight
A while back, I wrote this blog series about how to build a Silverlight client for flickr. This seemed to be pretty popular among a bunch of the people who stumble across my blog. I don’t know if it was specifically because it was using flickr or if it was because it went through the entire application step by step or if it was something else. But since then, I have gone around thinking about other possible applications that I could dissect in the same way, and for some odd reason I stumbled across Twitter. I know…you don’t stumble across Twitter. It is all over the place, and anybody that hasn’t heard of it is probably dead or deaf and blind. I’m personally not that active on Twitter, even though I try on and off. For anyone interested, I’m available here.
Anyhow, after having looked at it for a while, I decided to create a Silverlight based Twitter application. Even though it’s not as fancy or useful as some of the other alternatives out there, it will show the basics behind how to build a client. And not a client that just allows you to read a feed, but actually interact with it and send tweets. If you are not interested in how to develop a Twitter client and just want a Silverlight based client, I would recommend Gadfly, which is a fantastic client compared to what I’m going to show. But the idea behind this blog series is not to get the coolest application, but have a look at how one could go about building a client.
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