Tumblr on Windows 8/WinRT

[Steven Pears]

Afternoon from the UK!

 

Having now released my C# API on Github, I'm looking at working on a Win8 app for Tumblr.

 

I'm having trouble using WinRT with raw C# right now, mainly because of the contract restrictions on WinRT types and all the fun that entails - the bottom line is I'm looking at porting the entire library over to WinRT - which should hopefully make my life a lot easier (if for no other reason that it does binary based url encoding!)

 

I'm expecting this to take a week or so to figure out - plus there's just a lot of code to move across, but I was curious if there were any other devs on the group who might be interested in using / testing this once I'm done?

 

If there is - I'll look at posting the initial draft into Github as well.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Steven

[Marco Tagliaferri]

Hi Steven,

been working on a Windows 8 app myself, however I am having a bit of an issue when completing the OAuth process using the WebAuthenticationBroker class. I can successfully navigate to the tumblr login page, however when I click the "allow" button I get an error message.

I suspect tumblr is returning a 404 and WinRT is not liking it... I have tried various callback URLs, from WebAuthenticationBroker.GetCurrentApplicationCallbackUri() to a static URL all to no avail. Did you get this part working? Do you have any pointers?

Thank you very much!

Marco