I’ve made small demo application on how to search Twitter using Twitter REST API and RadGridView for Silverlight:
To download Twitter ATOM response you can use simple WebClient:
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox1.Text))
{
WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.DownloadStringCompleted += newDownloadStringCompletedEventHandler(client_DownloadStringCompleted);
if(!client.IsBusy)
client.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri(String.Format(urlFormat, TextBox1.Text, pageSize, currentPageIndex)));
}
and you can parse the response using XDocument.Parse() method:
XNamespace atomNamespace = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";
RadGridView1.ItemsSource = from item in XDocument.Parse(e.Result).Descendants(atomNamespace + "entry")
select new TwitterEntry
{
ID = item.Element(atomNamespace + "id").Value,
Published = DateTime.Parse(item.Element(atomNamespace + "published").Value),
Url = item.Element(atomNamespace + "link").Attribute("href").Value,
Title = item.Element(atomNamespace + "title").Value,
Content = item.Element(atomNamespace + "content").Value,
Updated = DateTime.Parse(item.Element(atomNamespace + "updated").Value),
ImageUrl = item.Descendants(atomNamespace + "link").Last().LastAttribute.Value,
Author = new TwitterAuthor()
{
Name = ((XElement) item.Element(atomNamespace + "author").FirstNode).Value,
Url = ((XElement) item.Element(atomNamespace + "author").LastNode).Value
}
};
Enjoy!
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Vladimir Enchev is Director of Engineering, Native Mobile UI & Frameworks