Facebook Profile Management

In this post I will discuss how I implemented the Profile Management for Network Trotters .

Profile Management Generals

As an application developer, you get the opportunity to place some information in the user profile page. Specifically you can set a Profile Action (link below the Profile Pic) and a Profile Box.

In your application you basically tell the Facebook platform where it should get the FBML/HTML that defines both the Profile Action and Profile Box. It is important to notice, that Facebook will Cache this FBML/HTML, until you specifically tell them to refresh it.

So in summary, you set the user Profile from your application, but you have to build a mechanism to refresh the users profile periodically.

Context

I am using the Facebook Development Toolkit as the Facebook Platform API wrapper; and the profiles are set by using Urls.

.Net Implementation (one of many)

In my implementation, the profile management contains 3 main components:

• Profile Content Page
• Setting a user profile
• Refresh the profile

About this Blog

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After much procrastinating, I have finally decided to start my blog to talk about my experiences, both professional and personal.

 The main subject will be software development in Microsoft’s Technologies; the intent is to share my experiences so I can collaborate to the community of .Net developers out there.

I run my own Software Development company  (Web Nodes), so I encounter many different challenges daily; most likely other developers are running into the same kind of issues… For a while now I have been only consumer of information: it is time to start giving back 🙂

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