http://www.devtacular.com/ This is the syndication feed for Devtacular.com. In this article, we will bridge the gap between Facebook Connect and retrieving user data using the Facebook Developer toolkit. A useful class is included for download that simplifies the process and reduces the work to just five lines of code! http://www.devtacular.com/article/bkonrad/how-to-retrieve-user-data-from-facebook-connect-in-aspnet Bill Konrad Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT This article demonstrates how to integrate Facebook Connect into your existing site in just a few simple steps. It teaches the basics of integration with full sample code included for download. http://www.devtacular.com/article/bkonrad/how-to-integrate-with-facebook-connect Bill Konrad Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT In this article we will explore how we can style our Facebook application to look and feel like an extension of the Facebook platform. We will examine colors, fonts, dimensions and a few common design patterns utlized by the Facebook platform in our quest to fit in with the crowd. http://www.devtacular.com/article/bkonrad/how-to-style-an-application-like-facebook Bill Konrad Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:02:00 GMT The Facebook Developer Toolkit project has just released version 2.0 of their ASP.NET API into the wild, so let's go over the basics. In this article, we focus on creating an absolutely bare bones FBML application that leverages the API. Enjoy! http://www.devtacular.com/article/bkonrad/how-to-use-the-facebook-developer-toolkit-20 Bill Konrad Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:14:00 GMT ASP.NET forms automatically reject input containing HTML tags. However, there are times when we need to allow a user to format their input - such as in comment forms. For this, we use the HtmlEncode utility method. Read on for this quick fix. http://www.devtacular.com/article/gkonrad/allowing-html-formatted-user-input-in-aspnet Geordie Konrad Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT Want to add an extra bit of professionalism to your web forms? This snippet allows you to provide default values for the input fields in your web form that disappear when the user focuses on that field. Add functionality while saving space! http://www.devtacular.com/article/gkonrad/how-to-add-suggestion-text-to-your-input-fields Geordie Konrad Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:11:00 GMT We all wish that IE6 would be abandoned by the masses, but many users have yet to upgrade to IE7. IE6 'hacks' have sprung up to deal with many of the issues plaguing developers. But how do we know that we are dealing with IE6 in the first place? http://www.devtacular.com/article/bkonrad/detecting-internet-explorer-6 Bill Konrad Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:27:00 GMT Frustrated with Chrome's orange outline marring your new web project's looks? So were we. That is, until we found a quick solution that removed it for good. http://www.devtacular.com/article/bkonrad/how-to-remove-chromes-orange-outline Bill Konrad Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:01:00 GMT