Professional Twitter Development: with examples in .NET 3.5

Twitter is rapidly moving up the social networking food chain and is currently outranked by only Facebook and MySpace. It features a programming API that allows you to build Web sites and applications (both desktop and mobile) for reading and posting to Twitter, finding other Twitter users, aggregating Twitter content, and other uses. This book walks you through the process of combining many programming tools in order to build exciting, useful, and profitable applications.

You''ll begin with a look at RESTful services and examine how to structure your queries, handle asynchronous operations, use headers, and post binary data. From there, author and TweetSharp developer Daniel Crenna explains how to authenticate with the OAuth specification for Web and Windows applications.

• Twitter is growing in popularity at a rapid pace and this book shows you how to take advantage of its programming API to build applications
• Explains the various ways to design a Twitter application, including caching, third party application interoperability, real-time data binding, push vs. pull data scenarios, and more
• Takes an in-depth look at TweetSharp, a .NET library for developing Twitter applications-whose creator is also the author of this book
• Walks you through requesting and retrieving responses from Twitter''s API
• Warns you of considerations to take into account regarding authentication and security

Professional Twitter Development shows you how to get the most out of Twitter so that you can build your own applications for this exciting new platform.

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Professional Twitter® Development With Examples in .NET 3.5

Daniel Crenna

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Professional

Twitter® Development

With Examples in .NET 3.5

As one of the simplest, most popular, and most powerful social networking platforms existing today, Twitter boasts a programming API that allows you to build websites and applications (both desktop and mobile) for reading and posting to Twitter, finding other Twitterers, aggregating Twitter content, and other uses. This timely resource shows skilled .NET developers how to take Twitter beyond a simple message service and build exciting, useful, and profitable applications using C# and .NET 3.5.

You''ll begin with a look at RESTful services and examine how to structure your queries, handle asynchronous operations, use headers, and post binary data. The author then explains the use of Twitter in push-based scenarios and shows you how to use WCF Polling Duplex, the gnip.com service, and Twitter''s Streaming API.

You''ll learn how to authenticate with the OAuth specification for web and Windows applications. Plus, you''ll take an in-depth look at TweetSharp, a .NET library for developing Twitter applications. Examples in Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Silverlight, and Windows Azure help you learn to make the most of Twitter and build your own applications for this exciting new platform.

What you will learn from this book

• Ways to design a Twitter application, including caching, third-party application interoperability, near real-time data updates, push vs. pull data scenarios, and more

• How to request and retrieve responses from Twitter''s API

• Various techniques for developing custom applications

• Considerations to take into account regarding authentication and security

• How TweetSharp can speed up your application development and time to market

Who this book is for

This book is for experienced developers who are interested in building Twitter applications or adding Twitter integration to other applications.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

Daniel Crenna is a Microsoft MVP and the creator of TweetSharp, an open - source .NET Twitter API development library. He runs www.dimebrain.com , a blog and software company in Canada. His Twitter client project, currently in development in partnership with Jason Diller, was a Top 5 Finalist in the Microsoft BlueSky Innovation Excellence Awards in 2009. Daniel was a contributor to the Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit, and is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer.