TweetNET v1.1
by Zachary Kniebel
Overview
TweetNET is a C# library for accessing the new Twitter API, v1.1. It is light-weight, highly extensible, and includes classes designed for explicit use with the different requests supported by twitter (e.g. GET statuses/user_timeline, GET statuses/show/:id, etc.). The library also satisfies the oAuth requirements for authorizing requests to Twitter. The library matches up with Twitter's API, exactly, and all request specific classes include, as properties, all of the query parameters accepted by Twitter, for that request. The library's intellisense for these properties is also copied directly from Twitter's description and example values for that parameter, in their API.
Using the Library
The initial release has included classes for two of Twitter's requests, GET statuses/user_timeline and GET statuses/show/:id, (more are on the way) along with the base Request class, which can be used to make any request to Twitter. If you wish to use the Request class directly, you will have to look up the request parameters that you need/want in the request at http://dev.twitter.com/. You may also inherit the Request class to build onto the library, using the inheriting classes for the implemented request types as a guide. Please remember that v1.0 is still in alpha testing. Namespace and class-name changes may occur between v1.0 and v1.1 (beta), which is targeted for Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013. All namespace and class-name changes will be documented and noted in the commit logs, for each class that they effect.
Making a request
Please view the Example_Request.txt document, for an example of how you can make a simple request to retrieve a user's timeline. Note that the Library matches up with Twitter's API, and request-specific classes include, as properties, all of the query parameters accepted by Twitter.
Documentation
Click here to view the API documentation for the library, online.
To view the documentation for this library after download, go to TweetNET -> docs -> Help and open the file "index.html" in either IE or FireFox.
Rendering Tweets
TweetNET was originally designed to provide a C# back-end for Twitter Feed, a jQuery plugin that is designed to simplify the rendering of tweets. It was developed with simplicity, robustness, and performance in mind, and may be used to render tweets regardless of the type of request that was used to retrieve them. For more information, view the repository at https://github.com/zkniebel/jquery-twitter-feed.
Version and Release Notes
-- Merged v1.1.0 into master --
v1.1.0 (beta) April 2, 2013
- Refactored and reorganized namespace to better match Twitter's API
- Added statuses/filter and search/tweets
- Added library documentation
- First four requests alpha test-complete
-- Created Branch: v1.1 (beta) - April 2, 2013 -- -- Created Branch (backup): v1.0 (alpha) - April 1st, 2013 --