TwitterDNN: A link-aware Twitter module for DotNetNuke

Last Updated: 8/15/2008

I've been using the DotNetNuke News Feeds (RSS) module with a custom RSS91.xsl file to display my Twitter feed on the home page of this site.  Looking at it the other day, it occured to me that none of the @/#/http links got highlighted like they do on the actual twitter site:

So, I created a DotNetNuke module that displays a Twitter feed and is aware of @ links, # hash tags (linked to search.twitter.com), and http links, and displays them as you'd expect to see them (if there are any in my current feed):
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You can take a look at the progress of it at www.CodePlex.com/TwitterDNN

Latest Updates from www.CodePlex.com/TwitterDNN:


Source code checked in, #38273»

Closed Task: Needs Basic Error Handling»

Created Issue: need handlers for missing settings»

Created Feature: add fearture for editor to post updates to twitter account»

Created Task: create module.css»

Resources:

www.CodePlex.com/TwitterDNN

twitter.com/busse

DotNetNuke News Feeds (RSS) module

Custom RSS91.xsl

Alan Le's Vertigo blog post: Witty: Creating a .Net Twitter API
(helped me overcome my old school Msxml2.XMLHTTP.3.0 and MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0 ways of working with RESTful APIs)

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