November 2007 - Posts
I just finished presenting to the Chicago .NET User Group on Facebook Development using the Microsoft stack. I focused primarily on the Facebook Developer Toolkit for obvious reasons (it is just what I know). The session covered an overview of the Facebook API and the Facebook Platform. We then talked in depth about using the Facebook Developer Toolkit to leverage the Facebook API and to write Canvas pages hosted within the Facebook Platform. Thanks to my colleague Jonathan Schuster who did the code demos and saved me a bunch of prep time. I was also able to demo leveraging Silverlight 1.1 on a Facebook IFrame Canvas page.
This is part of the deck where I described an overview of the Facebook Platform.
If you are new to the Facebook Platform, I'd recommend the recording we made of the session (linked at the end of this post) or check out the interview we did on Thirsty Developer
The turn out was good. I think we had 40+ people and most were new to Facebook development. It was fun to introduce this platform to a new group of .net developers. If you are interested in the presentation, the slides, demos and a video of the presentation can be accessed at clarityTV.
My thanks go out to my colleague Jonathan Schuster, who took over support of the Facebook Developer Toolkit for the past few weeks. He was able to push his way through a bunch of enhancements and bug fixes that the users have been waiting very patiently for.
This release marks a good milestone for the Toolkit as the majority of known issues with the support of Canvas applications are solved. In my opinion, the canvas support is now very solid and will really ease the learning curve for new developers who want to leverage the toolkit.
One of the big features of Release 1.3 is support for the compact framework. Many thanks to Peter Foote who dedicated a bunch of time to work on these features. For those of you interested, the release contains the following items.
Thanks to all of the people who have kept this project alive as I was pulled away. Pretty cool. We have had close to 500 downloads already. I am hoping to re-engage and help add support for new things that Facebook is releasing.