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Windows Phone 7 : Reading Twitter Timeline

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This one is similar to my previous post on Reading RSS. But useful in Phone App.

So you need the structure as below

 public class TWClass
{
    public string TextMSG { get; set; }
    public string CreatedDt { get; set; }
}

After that you need the below code to get your Twitter timeline. My Twitter handle is wriju_ghosh. I have hardcoded it. You can make it dynamic as well.

 public Page1()
{
    InitializeComponent();
        
    WebClient myTweet = new WebClient();
    myTweet.DownloadStringCompleted += new DownloadStringCompletedEventHandler(myTweet_DownloadStringCompleted);

    myTweet.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri(@"https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=wriju_ghosh"));
}

void myTweet_DownloadStringCompleted(object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e)
{
    //Need to check Network/WiFi etc before proceeding further..
    var TWData = from tw in XElement.Parse(e.Result).Descendants("status")
                    select new TWClass
                    {
                        TextMSG = tw.Element("text").Value,
                        CreatedDt = tw.Element("created_at").Value
                    };
    lstTW.ItemsSource = TWData;    
}

Now UI would look like (this can be better).

 <Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0">
    <ListBox Name="lstTW" Margin="0,0,6,0">
        <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
            <DataTemplate>
                <StackPanel Width="400">
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=TextMSG}"></TextBlock>
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=CreatedDt}"></TextBlock>
                    <TextBlock Text="----"></TextBlock>
                </StackPanel>                    
            </DataTemplate>
        </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
    </ListBox>            
</Grid>

Namoskar!!!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 11, 2013
    My Twitter handle is wriju_ghosh. I have hardcoded it. You can make it dynamic as well. what is hardcode? and how to do that? Sory i'm a newbie

  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2013
    This means I did not pass it through variable. If you pass it through variable then you can write a reusable function.