Create your own desktop Facebook application in C#

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In France, FaceBook is coming since a few months … and it makes a lot of noise. What is cool with this social network, it’s that we can develop customs applications.

I decided to explain steps to create a windows form which get facebook information.

First of all you have to create a FaceBook application in facebook:

Subscribe to Facebook

  1. Add the Facebook developer application (https://www.facebook.com/developers/)
  2. Create new application
    • Facebook provide you an API Key and a secret
  3. Edit your application to fill the Canvas Page URL and the CallBack Url
  4. Save your settings

Now that you have the API Key and a secret, you can develop your application:

  1. Install the Facebook developer toolkit (https://www.codeplex.com/FacebookToolkit)
  2. In Visual studio, check in the toolbar that you have facebook items (FaceBookService with facebook.dll, FriendMap,FriendList with Facebook.Controls.dll)
  3. Create a Windows Application
  4. Drag and drop FriendMap, FriendList and buttonControl on your windows form
  5. Add the following Code:

 

public partial class Form1 : Form
{

public Facebook.Components.FacebookService _fbService;

public Form1()
{
       InitializeComponent();
       _fbService = new Facebook.Components.FacebookService();
       _fbService.ApplicationKey = "ApplicationKey";
       _fbService.Secret = "Secret";
       _fbService.IsDesktopApplication = true;
}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
      Collection<User> users = _fbService.GetFriends();
      friendMap1.Friends = users;
     friendList1.Friends = users;
}

}

 

F5 and enjoy :-)

Comments

  • Anonymous
    December 14, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    May 10, 2008
    Hello, what is the User object in Collection<User>? I get a compile error as it is not referenced or defined anywhere. Thanks in advance, farahota

  • Anonymous
    May 10, 2008
    Hello, You can find the User object in the Facebook.Entity namespace:   Collection<Facebook.Entity.User> f = _fbService.GetFriends();

  • Anonymous
    June 16, 2008
    just want to ask what will be the callback url

  • Anonymous
    October 23, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2009
    It says "The type or namespace name 'Collection' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)" Please help me. Thanks

  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2010
    could you please change the code with respect to the code changed with version 3.0 of facebook development kit it would be really helpful i am not much of a c# user and new to it your code is incompatible with the new vesrions please help Thanks in advance

  • Anonymous
    July 27, 2010
    Can anybody help me to find out how to retrieve albums of face book in c# windows application.

  • Anonymous
    August 10, 2010
    FacebookService class is not having GetFriends() method it is displaying an error.

  • Anonymous
    September 14, 2010
    How can we login in facebook using desktop application. Where we have to provide our facebook username and password. How it will recognise the user. I m using facebookService1.GetExtendedPermission(facebook.Types.Enums.Extended_Permissions.status_update); but it is giving erro dat GetExtendedPermission and facebook does not exists.

  • Anonymous
    October 05, 2010
    What will be the callback url? Thank You

  • Anonymous
    December 01, 2010
    I don't really get the url part. Kindly help out

  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2011
    Collection<User> users = _fbService.GetFriends(); Error:namespace doesnot find

  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2011
    I want to information about c# desktop application you can send as email by following account santoshgade26@yahoo.in

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2014
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