Facebook authentication in Windows Phone application by somnathbanik

Authentication gives your app the ability to know the identity of a Facebook user, and to read and write data via Facebook’s APIs. The Facebook Platform uses OAuth 2.0 for authentication and authorization. A successful authentication flow results in your application obtaining a user access token which can be used to make requests to Facebook’s APIs.

This week’s featured article is about using OAuth2.0 for Facebook – for a Windows Phone 7 developer. The article walks you through the various steps involved in implementing including: adding controls on application page, launching Facebook login page, get the code and access token and finally loading the user’s profile.

The article also includes a working buildable code example. If you are integrating facebook with your WP7 application make sure you try out the example in the article. Let us know how it goes