Windowscommunitytoolkit: LinkedIn Service

[marcopmorais]

Now that LinkedIn and Microsoft are friends, can we have a LinkedIn service, such as the Facebook and Twitter service?

[deltakosh]

We need to check feasibility but this is definitely a must have!

[brandonh-msft]

I'd love to see @msiccdev bring some of his work on UniShare to the project. This one would be a great start

[MSiccDev]

I will have a look into it, but cannot give any time frame as I am busy with an external Xamarin project atm.

[cbarkerms]

@marcopmorais - can you indicate the highest priority functions you'd like to see from the LinkedIn service please? e.g. retrieval of signed in user's basic profile information, being able to share to LinkedIn, ...?

[brandonh-msft]

I think LI offers similar functionality as FB for now, so i'd say put them in parity where possible.

[cbarkerms]

For FB, the toolkit is currently layered over the top of https://github.com/Microsoft/winsdkfb - in the UWP Community Toolkit we have abstracted the most common user / developer stories to lower the bar to entry. We will take the same approach for the LI implementation (vs provide an extensive LI SDK which is a non-goal). This can be extended over time, but I am trying to understand the top LI integration requirements to get us started if that makes sense. Retrieving your user profile and being able to post/share information feels like the most pressing requirements?

[brandonh-msft]

@cbarkerms i'd agree w/ that.

[cbarkerms]

great, thanks!

[marcopmorais]

For a starting point Login(out), Get the user profile and creating new posts are the basic functionalities. Later on, maybe it could be nice to see what kind of apps we can build with LinkedIn and add new functionalities, such as messaging and groups interaction.

[cbarkerms]

thanks - I have this functionality included in my latest pull request so we should be able to get this in for the next release.

[deltakosh]

Done