Foursquare does not have a windows mobile version of their application, so I thought it would be a great opportunity to try and build an app.
Things that are working fairly well:
Foursquare API access.
JSON.NET is used to parse the JSON responses.
sqlite is used for caching http responses.
OAuth is used for authentication to foursquare.
GPS lookup.
Things that don’t [...]
Scott Hanselman http://www.hanselman.com/
Dan Wahlin http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/
The Morning Brew http://blog.cwa.me.uk/
Jon Galloway http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/
Scott Gu http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/
I’m sure I missed a bunch. What do you recommend?
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