Facebook API's and Silverlight

We demonstrated some very interesting integration with Windows, WPF and Silverlight with Facebooks new Open Stream API's. We participated in thier developer event yesterday to demonstrate some of the integration that could be achieved between MS and Facebook.

We released more detail on our team blog but needless to say we are not standing still and will be providing more info and detail on our plans here shortly. Here is a snip of some of the info from our blog:

Microsoft and Facebook have been working together since 2007 via the Facebook Developer Toolkit – a first of its kind open source solution to help developers integrate into and build applications for Facebook users. If you are building an application for the web, desktop, or mobile, and want to make it social and integrate it with Facebook, we will provide the tools and resources you need to create visually stunning, cutting edge applications faster than ever before.



At the event, we gave an early look at what will be possible by demonstrating canonical applications built with Silverlight and .NET. First we showed a Windows application, built with WPF, that shows the power of what .NET and Windows has to offer, via caching and sync, incredible performance, feed integration, automatic docking and adaptive UI, taskbar integration, search and more. The second was a Web application, built with Silverlight, that shows feed integration, profile exploring, and an incredible DeepZoom-based image viewing

experience with unique UX constructs for viewing large amounts of feed and friends-related photographic data. We will continue to build out these apps and will also ship the sourcecode in the future.