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Initially I started learning ASP.NET and built a few ASP.NET web sites professionally, but I didn’t try desktop windows programming as I had only ASP.NET projects to work on, but I curiously want to build a desktop client application, so I decided to build a client for Twitter. so in this post I want to show some bits of my new client which is powered by WPF.

I hope you would like it. I’m showing you some screenshots of the application first then in the future post I will post technical part.

I will distribute this application via codeplex.

When you launch application for the first time it will show you the sign in window like this:

To sign in you need to authorize your account at Twitter, after you authorized at Twitter you will get token pin for entering it in MyTwits like this:

and the pin:

For signing in MyTwits just copy this pin and paste in the MyTwits sign in windows like this:

Enter pin you’ve got and submit, then it verifies pin you entered and sign you in to get start. This is one time process to authorize at Twitter.

After signing in, you will see following window, which shows home timeline and other information, from here you can also update your status:

You can view your complete profile and your timeline by selecting Profile tab:

You can also delete your twits here by right click on the twit and select delete context menu.

To interact with users, such as reply to user, view his/her profile, friends, followers, twits, follow, unfollow, mention, block etc, you need to right click on the user twit and select option you want to perform on the selected user or just click his/her ScreenName to go to the profile tab for more interaction:

You can view list of your friend’s friends and followers by clicking on your friend ScreenName or View Profile context menu.

If you want to view your friend’s friend or follower profile just click on their profile picture from the right side and voila the profile will be loaded instantly in the same window:

Ok, profile is loaded what will I do now? From here you can follow him/her by clicking the Follow button [see above screenshot], you can also view his/her friends and followers list and follow them.

In MyTwits, you don’t need to refresh home timeline to see your friend’s recent twits, it will automatically added to the list when new twits available, I’m using Dispatcher Timer to check for new twits at a certain interval configured by the user. I also implement notification window which will show you new twits notifications above the taskbar area:

These are some bits of MyTwits which is currently under development and will be available [Beta version] shortly from codeplex.

In the future post I’ll start multi part series to show some goodness of the WPF and technical information regarding MyTwits.

Hope this works!

Shahnawaz