Posts tagged Facebook
Writing a Facebook event synchroniser for Outlook 2007+ Part 2
Jul 27th
Now for the juicy post, this will cover the nuts and bolts of putting it all together. I may make a part 3 once I have the time to clean up the code, add logging and other things. The aim of the project after this post is simply to be able to sync and change your RSVP status of a event (if they update their API! See below.
(Installer/Source available at end of post)
API RestrictionsFacebook have decided that only an admin of a event can RSVP through the API, sorry guys this is something that cannot be done through More >
Writing a Facebook event synchroniser for Outlook 2007+ Part 1
Jul 25th
Rather that trying to release and explain my other apps I thought I would write a event sync for outlook that uses WPF for the UI. I will be doing my best to use the MVVM pattern as well.
Requirements:
- Visual Studio 2008 SP1
- .net 3.5 SP1
- Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.1
- Continuous LINQ (I think I will use this)
- Umbrella Extensions
- My Outlook toolkit I have created
Credits:
- Microsoft Outlook/CRM integration Sample
- Adrian Brown’s Calendar monitor, which I have adapted into a generic folder monitor.
Steps:
- Create a new Outlook 2007 Add-in.
- Add the following References: PresentationCore PresentationFramework WindowsBase WindowsFormsIntegration (needed to host a WPF control in a outlook inspector) JakeOutlookToolkit
- Add this code More >