Facebook C# SDK - .NET 3.5 & Dynamic objects

Question

I have downloaded the Graph C# SDK for facebook, the examples are very helpful and easy to understand however i come unstuck when trying to use the dynamic object type as the return object for a FacebookApp.Get("me") call.

I'v never used dynamics before so i did a bit of reasearch and it seems they are new to Visual Studio 2010, which is the version i am using but i cant use the latest framework because of my production environment...

Is there a type i can use instead or is there a different way to go about this using the 3.5 framework? here is an example from the source files provided with the binary for the framework.

dynamic myInfo = app.Get("me");
lblTitle.Text = myInfo.name;

I get an error stating that i may be missing an assembely reference for type dynamic.

Any and all help is greatly apreciated! looking forward to getting to grips with this SDK!!

Answer 1

If you want strongly typed objects there is a very easy way to do that. See here: https://gist.github.com/906471

var fb = new FacebookClient("access_token");

var result = fb.Get<FBUser>("/me");

string name = result.Name;

MessageBox.Show("Hi " + name);

[DataContract]
public class FBUser {
   [DataMember(Name="name")]
   public string Name { get; set; }
   [DataMember(Name="first_name")]
   public string FirstName { get; set; }
}