Facebook and Delphi - Facebook API for Delphi By Zarko Gajic, About.com Guide July 19, 2011

in Facebook :: I guess you know what Facebook is? In simple words, Facebook is a social networking website intended to connect friends, family, and business associates. Users of Facebook can share news stories, video, and other files with friends. Here's a Facebook page you should "like" if you are interested in Delphi Programming About.com Delphi Programming on Facebook.'

Ok, so now that you know what Facebook is, you probably are asking how can I build a Delphi application to allow me and my friends to "connect" to Facebook more easily :)

You should be looking at the Facebook for Developers - allowing developers, for example, to build "Facebook apps" - web applications that are loaded in the context of Facebook.

Given that Delphi is a Win32 development environment, let's see if there are some libraries to help you build some Facebook apps (or anything Facebook-aware).

• Facebook API in Delphi - a discussion on Embarcadero Forums including some Delphi code you can use as a starting point to explore possibilities.
• Facebook Client Library for VB.NET. Ok, this is for Visual Basic and is .Net. The basic idea during development of this library was to make it as easy as possible to connect to and manipulate the Facebook API from either desktop or web-based applications. Note that you can use a .Net assembly from Delphi Win32

More at http://delphi.about.com/b/2011/07/19/facebook-and-delphi-facebook-api-for-delphi.htm

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