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Professional Twitter® Development: With Examples in .NET 3.5
Author(s): Daniel Crenna (Author)
- Publisher: Wrox
- Publication Date: 4 Sept. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 456 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780470531327
- ISBN-13: 0470531320
Book Description
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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From the Back Cover
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
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Ways to design a Twitter application, including caching, third–party application interoperability, near real–time data updates, push vs. pull data scenarios, and more
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How to request and retrieve responses from Twitter′s API
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Various techniques for developing custom applications
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Considerations to take into account regarding authentication and security
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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.
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