# TweetNET v1.1
by Zachary Kniebel

## Overview
   TweetNET is a C# library for accessing the new Twitter API, v1.1. It is
   light-weight, highly extensible, and includes classes designed for 
   explicit use with the different requests supported by twitter (e.g. 
   GET statuses/user_timeline, GET statuses/show/:id, etc.). The library
   also satisfies the oAuth requirements for authorizing requests to 
   Twitter. The library matches up with Twitter's API, exactly, and all
   request specific classes include, as properties, all of the query 
   parameters accepted by Twitter, for that request. The library's 
   intellisense for these properties is also copied directly from 
   Twitter's description and example values for that parameter, in their 
   API.
   
   
## Using the Library
   The initial release has included classes for two of Twitter's requests, 
   GET statuses/user_timeline and GET statuses/show/:id, (more are on the 
   way) along with the base Request class, which can be used to make any 
   request to Twitter. If you wish to use the Request class directly, you
   will have to look up the request parameters that you need/want in the 
   request at http://dev.twitter.com/. You may also inherit the Request
   class to build onto the library, using the inheriting classes for 
   the implemented request types as a guide. Please remember that v1.0 is
   still in alpha testing. Namespace and class-name changes may occur 
   between v1.0 and v1.1 (beta), which is targeted for Wednesday, April 
   3rd, 2013. All namespace and class-name changes will be documented and
   noted in the commit logs, for each class that they effect. 

   
## Making a request
   Please view the Example_Request.txt document, for an example of how 
   you can make a simple request to retrieve a user's timeline. Note that
   the Library matches up with Twitter's API, and request-specific classes
   include, as properties, all of the query parameters accepted by 
   Twitter.
   

## Documentation 
   Click [here](https://rawgithub.com/zkniebel/TweetNet/master/TweetNET/docs/Help/Index.html) to view the API documentation for the library, online.
   

   To view the documentation for this library after download, go to 
   *TweetNET -> docs -> Help* and open the file "index.html" in either IE 
   or FireFox.

 
## Rendering Tweets
   TweetNET was originally designed to provide a C# back-end for Twitter
   Feed, a jQuery plugin that is designed to simplify the rendering of 
   tweets. It was developed with simplicity, robustness, and performance
   in mind, and may be used to render tweets regardless of the type of 
   request that was used to retrieve them. For more information, view the
   repository at https://github.com/zkniebel/jquery-twitter-feed.

   
## Version and Release Notes

-- Merged v1.1.0 into master --

v1.1.0 (beta) April 2, 2013
   - Refactored and reorganized namespace to better match Twitter's API
   - Added statuses/filter and search/tweets
   - Added library documentation
   - First four requests alpha test-complete

-- Created Branch: v1.1 (beta) - April 2, 2013 --
-- Created Branch (backup): v1.0 (alpha) - April 1st, 2013 --