Christophe Geers' Blog

[...] add more. The same goes for the Video object. I’ll not list it here, just check out the source code that comes with this article. Did you notice the Type (string) property on the FileSystemInfo [...]

[...] token. Remark: The UrlEncode(…) method encodes the redirect URI. Check out the source code of this article to see how the method works. I already explained it in Part 5 of the Dropbox [...]

[...] Method Required Properties Transferring Content TransferContentToDevice Method Get the source code of the fourth article, #69: WPD: Deleting Resources, from the download page. Unzip it and open [...]

[...] my Kindle and see if I can’t delete a book from it. Table Of Contents Introduction Source Code Content What to delete? Deleting Resources Source Code If you haven’t read the previous [...]

[...] need to retrieve the request token / secret from the session state. Then you can retrieve an access token. You need to store this access token somewhere, so that you can use it next time instead of [...]

[...] redirect to a page where he can grant your applicion access to his Bitly account. Top of page Access Token When the user authorizes your application, he will be redirected to the URL specified by the [...]

[...] parameter. The redirect URI will be appended with 5 parameters, namely: access_token: The access token authentication_token token_type expires_in: The number of seconds the access token is valid [...]

[...] to a user’s photos, videos, audio, and albums. So let’s quickly generate a new access token: Remark: Each scope value needs to be separated by a space (%20). For brevity’s sake I&# [...]

[...] the code of part #4 (article 66) from the download page, unzip it and open the solution in Visual Studio. Let’s get started… Table Of Contents Introduction URL Encoding Uploading a File [...]

[...] page and download the code for the third part (article #65). Unzip it and open it up in Visual Studio. Table Of Contents Introduction A New Method Expanding FileSystemInfo Downloading the File A [...]

[...] page and download the source code of part 2 (Article #63). Unzip and open the solution in Visual Studio. Make sure you modify the API key and secret located in the console application (Program.cs [...]

[...] create your own certificates. Let’s quickly create a certificate. Start up an elevated Visual Studio Command Prompt and enter the following command: Make sure to replace the term “ [...]

[...] create in the first two articles, skim through them if you want to get up to speed. Single-page Application with Knockout.js, Part 1 (READ) Single-page Application with Knockout.js, Part 2 ( [...]

[...] Introduction Let’s wrap up our little Knockout powered single-page application. We already covered 3 out of 4 parts of the timesheets application. Displaying a list of [...]

[...] two technologies with ASP.NET MVC 4, Web API and Knockout.js to create a simple Single-page Application. The goal is to fit all the necessary code – HTML, JavaScript and CSS on one single [...]

Introduction Let’s start where we left off. Go ahead and download the source code of the previous part, unzip it and open it up in Visual Studio. La [...]

[...] of the session showed how you can quickly setup an ASP.NET MVC application and integrate Twitter Bootstrap into it. For those not familiar with [...] [...]

[...] The last 7 posts discussed how you can create a single-page application using GitHub, Twitter Bootstrap, MongoDB and Knockout.js. One last thing I touched briefly during my session in September is [...]

[...] Introduction The last two posts were introductory posts to Twitter Bootstrap and MongoDB. Let’s combine these two technologies with ASP.NET MVC 4, Web API and Knockout. [...]

[...] timesheets Time to finish up with the fourth and final part, deleting timesheets. Using some Twitter Bootstrap and Knockout magic it shouldn’t take that long. [...] [...]

[...] 2.0 protocol to authenticate users. I already covered OAuth in the following articles: Dropbox REST API Part 1: Authentication Dropbox REST API Part 6: OAuth Callback Bitly API: Authentication The [...]

Introduction With this entry into the Dropbox series we come back to the beginning of the cycle. We started with authentication and that’s wher [...]

Introduction In the last part of the Dropbox series, we handled file downloads. This time I’ll show you how you can easily upload files to your [...]

Introduction So far we’ve covered the following topics in the Dropbox series: Part 1: Authentication Part 2: API Requests Part 3: Create, De [...]

[...] Introduction I was playing around this morning with the Bitly API. Like the Dropbox API they use OAuth for authentication. But instead of version 1.0 they use the OAuth 2 draft [...]

[...] method as follows: Let’s implement the method. First let’s compose the URL of the Dropbox API which we’ll need to call. This will give you the following URI: https://api-content. [...]

[...] /test info %2ftest. The slash (/) is translated to %2f. However if you use that value with the Dropbox API you’ll get an error informing you that the signature is invalid. Apparently the Dropbox [...]

[...] easy that was? Now you can upload a file using two lines of code. Check out the Dropbox REST API documentation if you want to explore it further and implement new features. https://www. [...]

[...] the previous parts, this turned out to be a rather short article. Check out the Dropbox REST API documentation if you want to explore it further and implement new features on your own. https://www. [...]

[...] completeness, here’s the entire flow of the client application. Check out the Dropbox REST API documentation if you want to explore it further. https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api [...]

[...] Connect API. Let’s quickly cover the authorization flow. First you need to compose the authorization URL to which you’ll redirect the users. Fill in your client ID and make sure that the [...]

[...] like this: http://localhost:53291/Home/Authorized Last, but not least you retrieve the authorization URL and redirect the user to it so he can start the authorization process. The user will now be [...]