Interacting with Facebook with C# and Windows Azure

How to give scale to your facebook applications

Some articles here discuss the way you build facebook applications in C#. Let’s start with these and discuss some points. You can also learn about Outback’s Steakhouse campaign and how all this stuff is used in the real world. I am going to start at Step 1 myself. More links can be found below.

Step 1 - Get some facebook code into the cloud
Facebook C# SDK - Getting Started with MVC 3	https://facebooksdk.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Getting%20Started%20with%20an%20ASP.NET%20MVC%203%20Website&referringTitle=Getting%20Started
Steve Marx: How To Publish an ASP.NET MVC 3 App to Windows Azure	https://blog.smarx.com/posts/asp-net-mvc-in-windows-azure
How To Publish an ASP.NET MVC 3 App to Windows Azure	https://drew-prog.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-publish-aspnet-mvc-3-app-to.html

Links for Leveraging Facebook with C# and with Windows Azure
Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (March 2011) Prerequisite	https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=7a1089b6-4050-4307-86c4-9dadaa5ed018
Facebook C# SDK Prerequisite	https://facebooksdk.codeplex.com/
Bloomin' Onion Facebook Campaign	https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2010/aug10/08-02azurecustomers.mspx
Azure Lessons Learned: Outback Steakhouse Facebook Application	https://blogs.msdn.com/b/innov8showcase/archive/2009/12/17/azure-lessons-learned-outback-steakhouse-facebook-application.aspx
Article - Tampa Bay Online - Outback's Facebook fan base Bloomin'	https://beta2.tbo.com/business/business/2009/nov/18/sp-outbacks-facebook-fan-base-bloomin-ar-74706/
Building a Facebook Marketing App on Azure, dated 2/28/2011	https://www.devx.com/MS_Azure/Article/46308#fbid=r1C49LxPtVl

Support at Microsoft

Facebook Support At Microsoft
Canvas Development	https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee376934#
Overview of ASP.NET Development	https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee376924#
Facebook Connect	https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee702803#
FBML Canvas	https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee695850#
IFrame Canvas	https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee695841#
Facebook Platform	https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/cc895481#
REST API	https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee384381#

Support at CodePlex

Great Links to Facebook latest resources at CodePlex
FacebookSDK_V5.0.3_BETA	https://facebooksdk.codeplex.com/releases/60694/download/206749#
Azure Article Sample - Beta	https://facebooksdk.codeplex.com/releases/60694/download/212513#
Facebook C# SDK - Writing your first Facebook Application	https://blog.prabir.me/post/Facebook-CSharp-SDK-Writing-your-first-Facebook-Application.aspx#
Facebook C# SDK v5 Beta Internals	https://blog.prabir.me/post/Facebook-C-SDK-v5-Beta-Internals.aspx#