fb:editor FBML tag in Facebook applications

Posted by Dmytro Shteflyuk on under ASP.NET

Some time ago I have started posting about Facebook Application Platform (see my posts about setFBML and Facebook libraries for .NET). Today’s topic is fb:editor. As you may see, Facebook has nice look and feel, and all applications usually adapted in some way to its interface. fb:editor FBML tag allows you to create forms which looks just like native ones, but it has great limitation: it generates it’s own form tag, so can’t be used within ASP.NET server form. In this short post I’ll show HTML generated by fb:editor and a way how to use it in your ASP.NET application.

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Generating content for the Facebook’s setFBML method in ASP.NET

Posted by Dmytro Shteflyuk on under ASP.NET

In my current project we decided to build a Facebook application. This is really great platform with many interesting ideas inside, which usually means that you will spend a much time to make your application working as expected. Today I wanna talk about user profiles. Any Facebook application could add some action links, which will be displayed under the user’s picture, and some content for wide or narrow column. Of course, you can use FBML syntax, especially fb:if-... tags set to choose which content to show on specific profiles to concrete users.

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