Post on Facebook Users Wall Using ASP.Net C#

This article demonstrates how to post content (status, image, video, URL) to a user's Facebook wall using ASP.Net. Since I was thinking of implementing this feature in my current project, I found something cool and decided to share it with C# Corner readers.

Getting Started

First of all create a new website in ASP.Net using C#. And now login into Facebook and click on the developer link and create a new app and supply an app name and click "Continue".



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Now supply the captcha code in the TextBox and click "Continue".



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As you can see, there is an AppID and App Secret. You must use these so copy them. And supply the site URL and click "Save changes".



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Now let's start working on the UI. In this sample I will explain two ways to post a feed.

First scenario

  <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

    <div id="fb-root">

    </div>

    <script>

        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {

            FB.init({ appId: '491677990891136', status: true, cookie: true,

                xfbml: true

            });

        };

        (function () {

            var e = document.createElement('script'); e.async = true;

            e.src = document.location.protocol +

'//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js';

            document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e);

        } ());

    </script>

    <script type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {

            $('#share_button').click(function (e) {

                e.preventDefault();

                FB.ui(

{

    method: 'feed',

    name: 'jQuery Dialog',

    link: 'http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/authors/raj1979/raj-kumar.aspx',

    picture: 'http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/AuthorImage/raj1979.gif',

    caption: 'This article demonstrates how to use the jQuery dialog feature in ASP.Net.',

    description: 'First of all make a new website in ASP.Net and add a new stylesheet and add .js files and put images in the images folder and make a reference to the page.',

    message: 'hello raj message'

});

            });

        });

    </script>

 

 

<div>

        <input type="button" id="share_button" value="Share" />

    </div>

Run application



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Type a message and click "Share".



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Login to Facebook and see wall posts.

Second scenario

Add the Facebook client assembly in the bin folder and work on the code behind.
 

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.Net;

using System.IO;

using Facebook;

 

public partial class Default2 : System.Web.UI.Page

{

    string bodymessage = "This is test message description new";

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

    {

        CheckAuthorization();

    }

 

    private void CheckAuthorization()

        {

            string app_id = "APP_ID";

            string app_secret = "APP_SECRET";

            string scope = "publish_stream,manage_pages";

 

            if (Request["code"] == null)

            {

                Response.Redirect(string.Format(

                    "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?client_id={0}&redirect_uri={1}&scope={2}",

                    app_id, Request.Url.AbsoluteUri, scope));

            }

            else

            {

                Dictionary<string, string> tokens = new Dictionary<string, string>();

 

                string url = string.Format("https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id={0}&redirect_uri={1}&scope={2}&code={3}&client_secret={4}",

                    app_id, Request.Url.AbsoluteUri, scope, Request["code"].ToString(), app_secret);

 

                HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest;

 

                using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)

                {

                    StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());

 

                    string vals = reader.ReadToEnd();

 

                    foreach (string token in vals.Split('&'))

                    {                       

                        tokens.Add(token.Substring(0, token.IndexOf("=")),

                            token.Substring(token.IndexOf("=") + 1, token.Length - token.IndexOf("=") - 1));

                    }

                }

 

                string access_token = tokens["access_token"];

 

                var client = new FacebookClient(access_token);

 

                client.Post("/me/feed", new { message = bodymessage });

            }

        }   

}

Run the application to see the result.



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