Facebook Developer Platform Tutorials

Facebook Developer Toolkit Walkthrough with Visual

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&tab=soapbox&vid=ab8ba22e-3d53-4eb3-853d-311e06f5ed99

Video Tutorial: "Facebook Developer Toolkit Walkthrough (Windows Forms)," from Microsoft. Four-minute video on how to use the Facebook Developer Toolkit with Visual C# Express Edition. Walks you through the steps involved in developing an application using the Visual Studio Express Editions so that you can have your application up fast.

Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an Application

http://developers.facebook.com/step_by_step.php

Tutorial: "Step-by-step Guide to Creating an Application," from Facebook. Describes how Facebook created a platform application called 'tutorialapp' that can be used as a template for developers to build their own platform app using PHP 5. Includes an introduction to 'tutorialapp', integrating Hello World (how to setup the application, e.g., filling out forms, creating a PHP file, etc.), pushing Facebook Markup Language (FBML) to the profile box, using mock-Ajax in the profile box, using MySQL to create a counter, putting examples together and downloads. Downloads include the latest PHP 5 platform client library, and sources you'll need for the final example.

Facebook Development Kit from Microsoft

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/showcase/quickstarts/

Tutorial: "Getting Started with the Facebook Developer Toolkit," from Microsoft. Includes a step-by-step walkthrough for setting up a Facebook application using the Visual C# and Visual Basic languages. Includes a guide for Windows Forms Quickstart and Web Quickstart.

Updating Apps with User-Specific Data

http://dev.formd.net/facebook/lastfmCharts/tutorial.html

Tutorial: "Using fb:ref to Automatically Update an App with User-Specific Data," by Joe Lanman of Formd. Provides information on the XML tag fb:ref, which allows you to place a reference on a user's profile and send content to the reference at any time. Includes its function, the process, using fb:ref handle and using fb:ref url.

Introduction to Facebook Markup Language (FBML)

http://20bits.com/2007/06/04/an-introduction-to-fbml/

Tutorial: "An Introduction to FBML," from 20bits. Presents an extensive description of Facebook Markup Language (FBML), including your data as FBML, what FBML is (e.g., it consist of a subset of HTML and a set of proprietary extensions), integrating with Facebook using the PHP 5 client library. Links to Facebook's developer resources and discusses Facebook's AJAX-like system.

Facebook Developer Toolkit Walkthrough with Visual

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&tab=soapbox&vid=5a2b8ffc-31a1-4041-97d0-44461f1fd764

Video Tutorial: "Facebook Developer Toolkit Walkthrough (ASP.NET)," from Microsoft. Five-minute video tutorial discusses how to use Facebook Developer Toolkit with Visual Web Developer. Walks you through the steps involved in developing an application using the Visual Studio Express Editions so that you can have your application up fast.