Facebook Connect with ASP.NET

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Introduction

Facebook integration, for existing or new web pages, is very important in today's business world for promoting a web business. Facebook is now the most used social network on the Internet and avoiding integration of Facebook features in websites, especially the new ones, could be a big drawback for success. Technology behind Facebook Integration on websites, so called Facebook Connect, enables a user of websites to create a couple of actions which helps with sharing information about websites or articles inside these websites with friends. If content is very interesting it is possible to share this content with virally thousand or millions of users, which would bring significant traffic to a website.

This article covers features of commercial ASP.NET, the control library used to integrate Facebook Connect. It features very easy to understand directions without requiring a lot of knowledge about Facebook API and without using XFBML tags. Facebook Connect JavaScript methods and conversions from .NET objects to JSON format which is actually time consuming for any .NET developer.

Alternative: Facebook Connect PHP library

If you are looking for the same Facebook Connect library for PHP programming language based on Graph API. Please look at:
Facebook Connect Graph API PHP Classes
Graph API PHP implementation of Facebook Connect features

Facebook Login Button

Facebook Login ButtonLogin Button used to connect website with Facebook API service. Connecting on Facebook enable web application to communicate with Facebook, i.e. to acquire data using Facebook API as logged in user and post information to Facebook. Login Button also able all components from the list to work without requiring logging in to a current session. Click on the image to enlarge it and see more details about the control.

Become Fan Box

Facebook Become FanBecome Fan Box is used to enable users to become fans of your Facebook Page which is linked to your website as the main business place. By becoming a fan user, it creates links to your Facebook page and thereby increasing the page rating and traffic to your website. The Become Fan Box also can have a list of defined number of fans and last publishing on the page wall. Click on the image to enlarge it and see more details about the control.

Stream Publish Popup

Facebook Stream PublishStream Publish Control is used to publish stories on users walls, users friends walls or Facebook pages itself if user is a page administrator. Stream publish enable user to publish rich stories which include text, action links and media. There are 4 media types which can be published: Image, Video, Flash and MP3. Click on the image to enlarge it and see more details about the control.

Comment Box

Facebook CommentsFacebook Comment Box enable users of the page to put comments about the website itself or about some particular article. Commenting on articles also publishing a story on users wall (enabled by default) which also drives more traffic to the website. Click on the image to enlarge it and see more details about the control.

Invite Friends

Facebook Invite FriendsInvite Friends Control is used to enable user to send invites people to use a website. Send an invite to friends by sending Facebook invite requests. Click on the image to enlarge it and read more details about the component.

Facebook Permission

Facebook PermissionsPermission Dialog requires a user to allow a website to do something, an action, such as sending email, auto stream publishing, upload photos, etc. Click on the image to enlarge it and read more about the control.

Bookmark button

Facebook Bookmark ButtonBookmark Button is used to bookmark a website inside Facebook so that the environment could be easy accessible each time a user want to see it. Click on the image to enlarge it end read more about the component.

Development Libraries

Facebook ASP.NET Development in C# and VB.NET
Home page of the all products related with Facebook Development on ASP.NET
Facebook Connect library in C# and VB.NET
The main page which contains list of all components for Facebook Connect development on ASP.NET
Facebook iFrame library in C# and VB.NET
Component library for development of iFrame Facebook application on ASP.NET
ASP.NET iFrame Facebook Application
Article about Facebook ASP.NET iFrame applications

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