Facebook Developer Toolkit v1.3 Starter Kit updated

.NET, Facebook, Programming

UPDATED Nov. 6, 2008: A new release is available here.

I’ve updated my Facebook Starter Kit to version 1.3 of the Facebook Developer Toolkit published by Microsoft available on CodePlex. I also cleaned up the code and moved the Appkey and Secret so their read from web.config.

Btw, I’ve had a few questions in email about how to fetch a friend list which can be done as follows: 

if (!IsPostBack)
{
    System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection<User> userinfo =
      _fbService.GetUserInfo(_fbService.UserId);
    Label1.Text = "Hi, " + userinfo[0].FirstName;
    Image1.ImageUrl = userinfo[0].PictureUrl.ToString();

    // Use the FacebookService Component to populate Friends
    System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection<User> Friends = 
      _fbService.GetFriends();
    for (int i = 0; i < Friends.Count; i++)
        DropDownList1.Items.Add(Friends[i].FirstName.ToString());
}

If you haven’t seen it I’ve also created a starter kit for Nikil Kothari‘s Facebook.NET framework so be sure to take a look a that as well.

Enjoy!

8 thoughts on “Facebook Developer Toolkit v1.3 Starter Kit updated”

  1. Hi
    I would just like to know if you have a sample of inviting friends to your application
    thanks
    Eddie

  2. Steve, thanks very much for updating the developer toolkit. I’m trying to get this to work using Vista, IIS 7 and VS2008 and encountering an error. Trying to view any page on the site created by the Starter Kit gives HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error.
    Config Error: Cannot add duplicate collection entry
    Failing on line 75:
    75: <add name="ScriptHandlerFactory" verb="*" path="*.asmx" preCondition="integratedMode" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>
    Do you have any thoughts on what might be causing this and how I can get up and running?

  3. I’ve resolved the issue I mention above by changing the target framework of my site from 2.0 to 3.5.
    However, AddApp.aspx and RemoveApp.aspx balk with:
    Cannot find ContentPlaceHolder ‘HeaderContentPlaceHolder’ in the master page ‘/AppTestRB/Site.master’, verify content control’s ContentPlaceHolderID attribute in the content page.
    … is it possible that your Master Page is missing a few ContentPlaceHolder controls?

  5. Same problem as Rob Burke. The Site.Master in this Toolkit is not setup correctly, it has <asp:contentplaceholder id="MainContentPlaceHolder" runat="server"></asp:contentplaceholder> replace this with:
    <asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="HeaderContentPlaceHolder" Runat="Server"></asp:Content>
    <asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="NavBarContentPlaceHolder" Runat="Server"></asp:Content>
    <asp:Content ID="Content3" ContentPlaceHolderID="RightColumnContentPlaceHolder" Runat="Server"></asp:Content>
    <asp:Content ID="Content4" ContentPlaceHolderID="CenterColumnContentPlaceHolder" Runat="Server"></asp:Content>
    <asp:Content ID="Content5" ContentPlaceHolderID="FooterContentPlaceHolder" Runat="Server"></asp:Content>
    I’ve done and now I can publish to my local IIS and run the application from Visual Studi and it correctly links back to my local aspx files, I cannot add the application on facebook. If I run through the add app use case it fails when trying to run Appadd.aspx with a 404 error. Not sure where I’m going wrong.
    Regards,
    Klaus

  6. Hi Klaus,
    Thanks for the follow-up, I needed the reminder. I just now updated the starter kit and fixed the content place holder references. I’ll test the addapp.aspx page to make sure that’s working correctly.

  7. Rob & Klaus,
    I see that I made a mistake on the wiki page and didn’t include "MyApp" in the Add/Remove page URL’s. I’ve since corrected that error in the Welcome.htm as well as on the wiki. Apologies.

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