Saturday, January 17, 2009

How to Use the Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0

Introduction

This snippet is just the start of a series of articles written to explain the most commonly used features of the Facebook Developer Toolkit API. I promised Brian Goldfarb that I would help support the community, and I intend to follow through. Thanks to Microsoft for supporting social networking development using the .NET framework!

With that said, let's get started.

Download the Facebook Developer Toolkit. Here is a link to the CodePlex Project.

Once you have the binaries on your local disk, we need to set up our Facebook application.
Setting up a Facebook Application

The process is actually quite simple. First we need to install the "Developer" application, provided by Facebook.

Here is a link - Facebook Developer Application

Launch the Developer application and click "Set Up New Application" in the top right hand corner.

You will see the following screen. I have filled in the necessary fields, but here is a quick rundown.

1. Application Name - You must pick one.
2. Callback URL - This is the address of your hosted facebook application.
3. Canvas Page URL - Give your application a nice, memorable address on Facebook.

How to Use the Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0

Complete article: http://socialsnippets.com/snippets/how-to-use-the-facebook-developer-toolkit-20.aspx

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