How to put a twitter follow button in Form application?

[Darth Vader]

Hi,

I wonder if it is possible to put a "Twitter Follow Button" on a windows form application?
Usually I have this code on a ASP.net webform.

<a href="https://twitter.com/_TwitterName" class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-show-screen-name="false"></a><script>    !function (d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (!d.getElementById(id)) { js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); } } (document, "script", "twitter-wjs");</script>

[TekknoDraykko]

Hello Darth Vader:
Try this article written by a good pal of mine Peter Shaw:

http://www.codeguru.com/columns/dotnet/accessing-twitter-with-c.html

If you have questions, he's really good about answering (or you can just aske me here :) )

TekknoDraykk

[Darth Vader]

Thanks TekknoDraykko

I checked on the article but was not able to find anywhere how it would be possible to add just a simple "follow button" on a Windows Form.

For the code in my post, that is a html snippet which renders a follow button.

Could it be possible to put a follow button on a Windows Form. I am bit stumped :)

[TekknoDraykko]

Indeed, I'm not seeing too many articles about that. One thought that o ccurs to me is to simply drop a button on the WinForm and just setting it's OnClick poperty to the URL of the Twitter feed you want it to go to. The following MSDN article has an example that might point you in the right direction:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.button.onclientclick(v=vs.110).aspx

TekknoDraykko

[Darth Vader]

Thanks, this is a little tricky :) I can understand that.

I still thinking if there is a way to have the button on a WinForm.

I have a thought of if there could be any WinForm control that can render "HTML code". In some way if you inserted a String (which holds the complete twitter code button) as a Literal into a WinForm control which could render this?

[TekknoDraykko]

OK. I did a Google search for Twitter C# API's (thinking there might be a library you could use). This is one site that I came up with:

https://tweetinvi.codeplex.com/

Not sure if it will work with WinForms (I'm guessing it's mostly for Weborms), but take a look...

Tekkno

[Darth Vader]

Thanks Tekkno :)

The tweetinvi is an API for twitter and I have used it before. But this will not allow to put a button on the WinForm. It is just communication to Twitter.

It would be a "Twitter follow button" which is clickable that I am after.

[TekknoDraykko]

Sorry I couldn't be more help. If you find an answer please share. I'd be interested in knowing how you solved it. :)

Tekkno

[Darth Vader]

Yes I will share if I find a way to do it. Thanks for your help!