John Mendez

So here is some code to grab the friends timeline utilizing LINQ to XML.  There are two parts to this. 1) a function to make the request to their API and bring back the response and 2) use LINQ to XML to read the friends timeline.

You'll notice in my code I add the querystring item "count" because it's open to bring back the items you want. Without "count" it brings back the 20 items.

1) Code to make the request and return a string (which is the XML) brought back

public string GetFriendsTimeline(int count)
{
        WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(string.Format("http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?count={0}", count));
        NetworkCredential creds = new NetworkCredential(_username, _password);

        req.Credentials = creds;
        req.Method = "GET";
        WebResponse resp = (WebResponse)req.GetResponse();

        Stream respStream = resp.GetResponseStream();
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(respStream);

        string respString = reader.ReadToEnd();

        reader.Close();
        respStream.Close();
        resp.Close();

        return respString;
}

_username and _password are private variables stored in the class that holds this function so replace the variable with your credentials if need be during testing

2) The function that utilizez LINQ to XML to easily roll through the XML string in the Friends Timline

private void GetRecentTweets()
{

        timelineString = objTwitter.GetFriendsTimeline(10);

        XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Parse(timelineString);

        var resultTweets = from tweets in xDoc.Descendants("status")
                          select new
                          {
                              ID = tweets.Element("id").Value,
                              Text = tweets.Element("text").Value,
                              Source = tweets.Element("source").Value,
                              UserID = tweets.Element("user").Element("id").Value,
                              UserName = tweets.Element("user").Element("name").Value,
                              UserScreenName = tweets.Element("user").Element("screen_name").Value,
                              UserImageUrl = tweets.Element("user").Element("profile_image_url").Value,
                              CreatedDate = tweets.Element("created_at").Value,
                          };

 //...the rest of your code here for

}

remember the function in step one is located in a class so a simple copy and paste of this code will not work in your program.  However, the two functions combined will deciding how you want them to be laid out in your program.  Happy programming.

C# twitter, linq to xml

So I'm working on making an editor for ASP.NET resource files.  I know there are some out there, but with like most things it has to be custom.  Anyway I wanted to utilize this in the most efficient way, and of course the winner is LINQ to XML as far as reading out the data from the XML file.  So far I haven't got much further than this but just wanted to show how easy it was with LINQ to XML to grab the values I needed from the resource file:

  XDocument resxXML = XDocument.Load(Server.MapPath(string.Format("~/App_LocalResources/{0}", resxFile.Name)));

  var resxData = from data in resxXML.Root.Descendants("data")
                 select new
                 {
                     ResxName = data.Attribute("name").Value,
                     ResxValue = data.Element("value").Value
                 };

  foreach (var ele in resxData)
  {
      Response.Write(string.Format("RESXName: {0} &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; RESXValue = {1}<br />", ele.ResxName, ele.ResxValue));
  }

resxFile.Name is a variable I have storing the file I need from the resource file directory.

So now my next task will be to edit and write the data back to the resource file.  I'll figure that one out soon and when I'm done with it all I'll put it up here for people to use as well.

ASP.NET linq to xml