Discussions
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Asp.net Web Forms obtain access token in ReturnURI page
I'm trying to use Dropbox .Net from an asp.net Web Forms application. I'm successfully able to get control in my ReturnURI web page. But I can't find any sample code on how to proceed further to obtain the AccessToken in Page_Load of that page. Please help or at least give a pointer to the sample code. The examples are not…
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App marketing and discoverability
This is an App Marketing related question but I'm posting it here as this is the only section I can find targeted to developers. Please point to a suitable section to post such questions in future. If not there, why not make a section devoted to App Marketing? If I develop an App for Dropbox: * What features for…
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Need .Net sample for download to file
I'm using Dropbox API in an asp.net application. I have managed to download the file contents into a stream upto the following line of code in an async task. var strm = response.GetContentAsStreamAsync(); But I can't find a sample of how to write this stream finally to a file on the web server for which I do have a path…
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Displaying modified date properly
I'm using ListFolderAsync in asp.net. Why doesn't it return the modified date time based on the logged in user's Account time zone? Any idea how to display it in the Account's time zone? Thanks.
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.Net how to get JSON string?
I'm using ListFolderAsync in Asp.net by using the examples in the SDK. Works fine. But I want to get the JSON string containing the file list in order to convert it directly to an XML file. I'm not familiar with the sdk or .net on how to get that from your response. Can you give a quick sample? Thanks.
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What if I want the User to login each time
I don't want to keep my own user membership db and login logic for my web app. My web app is going to be only for Dropbox and I want to rely on Dropbox Login only. Otherwise, saving the access token means, I have to associate it with the Email of the user. That means, I have to have my own login system asking Email of the…
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Chooser and security
I'm a beginner but am now using the Chooser API successfully from a Web app. But I'm concerned about the security of the link obtained. Your description of the returned link is too short and doesn't say anything about security. It says 2 types of links are returned, first is shared and the second is a download, valid for 4…