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Import events from Facebook: Prepare your work environment

Creating the project

To create the project, where you design the pipes, perform the following:

  1. Open Visual Studio and click File » New Project…

  2. Click Other Template Types » Visual Studio Solutions » Blank Solution.

  3. In the Location input field, enter the path to the folder you want your project to be stored in.

  4. In the Name input field, enter FacebookEventsImport and click OK.

  5. In the context menu of the solution, click Add » New Project…

  6. In the left pane, select Visual C# » Windows.

  7. Click Class Library and name it FacebookEventsImport.

  8. Inside the created class library, delete the class automatically created by Visual Studio.

Next, you must create the folders in the project.

Creating the folder structure

To continue with the tutorial you must create the following folders inside your project:

  • PublishingSystem

  • Utilities

  • Web

  • UI inside Web

Adding assembly references

You must reference the following assemblies in the project:

  • Microsoft.CSharp

  • Newtonsoft.Json

  • System

  • System.Core

  • System.Data

  • System.Data.DataSetExtensions

  • System.Runtime.Serialization

  • System.Web

  • System.Web.Extensions

  • System.Xml

  • System.Xml.Linq

  • Telerik.OpenAccess

  • Telerik.OpenAccess.35.Extensions

  • Telerik.OpenAccess.40.Extensions

  • Telerik.OpenAccess.Config

  • Telerik.OpenAccess.MySql.Data

  • Telerik.OpenAccess.Runtime

  • Telerik.OpenAccess.Web

  • Telerik.Sitefinity

  • Telerik.Sitefinity.Model

  • Telerik.Sitefinity.Resources

  • Telerik.Sitefinity.Utilities

  • Telerik.Web.Design

  • Telerik.Web.UI

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