Simplest way to post to a facebook fan page's wall with C#!

Question

I have a fan page setup for my company.

I want to automate the posting of regular updates to that page\'s wall from my C# desktop application.

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Answer 1

@Aaron - the best library is the facebook c# sdk. I use it every day... granted I am biased as my company writes it - but it's a dynamic library and with the rate of updates from Facebook (every Tuesday) it is well suited for scalable development.

http://facebooksdk.codeplex.com/

I won't get into authentication with it - as on codeplex there are many examples: http://facebooksdk.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Code%20Examples&referringTitle=Documentation But to do a post to a page, after you have authenticated and have an access token, the code would be something like this:

dynamic messagePost = new ExpandoObject();
messagePost.access_token = "[YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN]";
messagePost.picture = "[A_PICTURE]";
messagePost.link = "[SOME_LINK]";
messagePost.name = "[SOME_NAME]";
messagePost.caption = "{*actor*} " + "[YOUR_MESSAGE]"; //<---{*actor*} is the user (i.e.: Aaron)
messagePost.description = "[SOME_DESCRIPTION]";

FacebookClient app = new FacebookClient("[YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN]");

try
{
    var result = app.Post("/" + [PAGE_ID] + "/feed", messagePost);
}
catch (FacebookOAuthException ex)
{
     //handle something
}
catch (FacebookApiException ex)
{
     //handle something else
}

Hope this helps.