Maybe the Question I should be asking is: "How do I make Twitter a
Trusted Application?" Somebody please help!
On Oct 14, 2:04 pm, theDisciple <webstew...@scriptureseeds.org> wrote:
> From my web site, when certain events occur, such as a visitor
> registers, a news event happens, etc, I need to post the message
> "Tweet" on Twitter.com. I have written the web application in VB.NET
> 3.5 using Visual Studio 2008.
>
> I added all 4 required values, ConsumerKey, ConsumerSecret,
> OAuthToken, and OAuthTokenSecret to the web.config file in the
> "appSettings" section of the "configuration" section.
>
> <appSettings>
> <!-- Twitter and BitLy access keys -->
> <add key="ConsumerKey" value="YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY" />
> <add key="ConsumerSecret" value="YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET_KEY" />
> <add key="OAuthToken" value="YOUR_APPS_OAUTHTOKEN_KEY" />
> <add key="OAuthTokenSecret"
> value="YOUR_APPS_OAUTHTOKEN_SECRET_KEY" /
>
> </appSettings>
> I found that by going to twitter.com and signing into the account that
> is using the application, then go to the "Settings" page, go to the
> bottom of the page and click on the "API" menu option. Once the API
> page appears you will clik on the button "2", Register An App. On the
> right side on the new page, you will see a button "View Your
> Applications." If you have previously registered your app, click this
> button, If not fill out the appliction for a new app. Now at the View
> your Applications page, select the app you want to get the
> authorization keys for where is says "Edit Details".
>
> Now click on the button to the right that says, "Application Detail."
> Here you will find your Consumer Key and your Consumer Secret Key. On
> the right side of this page you will see the menu option "My Access
> Token", click it and you will find your oauth_token and your
> oauth_token_secret keys!
>
> Not that you have all the keys, put them in the "appSettings" section
> of the web.config file.
>
> Add "Dim twConn As New TwitterVB2.TwitterAPI" at the top of the page.
>
> I then created a subroutine where I pass in the Tweet:
>
> Public Sub PostOnTwitter(ByVal Tweet As String)
> 'Retrieve Keys from web.config
> Dim twitterKey As String =
> System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("ConsumerKey")
> Dim twitterSecret As String =
> System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("ConsumerSecret")
> Dim twitterOAuthToken As String =
> System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("OAuthToken")
> Dim twitterOAuthTokenSecret As String =
> System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("OAuthTokenSecret")
>
> Try
> twConn.AuthenticateWith(twitterKey, twitterSecret,
> twitterOAuthToken, twitterOAuthTokenSecret)
> twConn.Update(Trim(Tweet))
> Catch ex As Exception
> lblError.Text = "Twitter Returned: " & ex.Message
> End Try
> End Sub
>
> This code works great in an enviornment that allows at least a
> "Medium"trustlevel. However it appears that many of the "new"
> hosting envrionments such as "Cloud Hosting", "Web Farm", and others
> do not allow thistrustlevelautomatically!However if thetrustlevel
> is less than "Medium" on your host you will likely receive the error
> message:
> "Twitter Returned: Request for the permission of type
> 'System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission, mscorlib,
> Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'
> failed."
>
> I am unfamiliar with how to create alteredTrustLevelin the
> web.config fiel. If anyone has found a fix for this "TrustLevel"
> issue please post it!
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