Facebook Developer Toolkit

Do you have a Facebook account and want to do more with it? Start creating cool, fun Windows applications and Web sites with the Facebook Developer Toolkit. This toolkit offers you a huge amount of easy-to-use components and controls, plus ready-to-run samples and detailed documentation to get you started. With Visual Studio Express Editions and the Facebook Developer Toolkit, you'll have the tools you need to get going today!

The Facebook Developer Toolkit is a full complement of components, controls and samples for developing applications using the Facebook Platform. The kit also includes Visual C# and Visual Basic wrappers for the Facebook API to make application development simple, fun and quick. You can use the Facebook Developer Toolkit to build applications using Windows Forms, ASP.NET or WPF. You can even use the toolkit to take advantage of LINQ.

See How Easy It Is

Explore the QuickStarts to see just how easy it is to develop using the Facebook Developer Toolkit and Visual Studio Express Editions. Watch the walkthrough videos to see how easy it is to build Facebook-enabled applications. You can have an application or website up and running in only a few minutes.

The Facebook Development Toolkit allows you to create applications that you can share with your Facebook friends. Download the toolkit today!

Want to see the Facebook Developer Toolkit in action? Download this sample application that uses the Facebook Developer Toolkit to build a dynamic screensaver with Visual C# Express Edition. Explore the Facebook Developer Toolkit wiki for more details on the toolkit.

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Facebook warned to live up to safety claims

ALBANY, N.Y. - The social networking website Facebook has been warned that it could face a consumer fraud charge for failing to live up to claims that youngsters there are safer from sexual predators than at most sites and that it promptly responds to concerns, a spokesman for New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said yesterday.


Facebook was launched in 2005 by undergraduates at Harvard University, led by Mark Zuckerberg, above. (PAUL SAKUMA/ASSOCIATED PRESS/FILE 2007)

"We expect an immediate correction eliminating the dangers exposed by our investigation," said the spokesman, Jeffrey Lerner.

Cuomo announced last week that he had subpoenaed Facebook after he said the company did not respond to many complaints by investigators who were solicited for sex while posing as 12- to 14-year-olds on the site.

Officials from Cuomo's office met with Facebook on Friday after they said Facebook took three days to answer calls and e-mails from state investigators.

An official in Cuomo's office said he and others are scheduled to meet with Facebook representatives this week and anticipate changes will follow immediately.

"We said, 'You have got to make accurate representations on your website,' " said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because court filings have not yet been made. "What we told them is, 'Correct the language describing the site and stop marketing yourself as this pristine website . . . parents have a misimpression. You can't mislead people.' "

Lerner said Facebook's contention of being safer than most sites was accurate when it started out as a closed site 3 1/2 years ago. But it's now much larger, and the safeguards and apparently the response times for complaints aren't what they once were, he said.

There was no immediate response to e-mail and phone messages left for a Facebook representative.

But a statement issued a week ago said the company was concerned about Cuomo's claim that sexual predators could use the site to meet with children.

"We strive to uphold our high standards for privacy on Facebook and are constantly working on processes and technologies that will further improve safety and user control on the site," Facebook spokeswoman Brandee Barker said in the statement.

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