Social bookmarks code for .NET

For a recent project, built with asp.net and Visual Studio 2008, I needed to create buttons for social bookmarks - Digg, Delicious, etc. It is pretty straightforward actually so I thought I’d share the code.

For my project I used Master Pages and vb, so for C#, you can convert it here.

Master Page code

Put this is in your page load:

Partial Class yourclass
    Inherits System.Web.UI.MasterPage
    Public strURL As String
    Public strTitle As String

    Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) 
Handles Me.Load
        strURL = Page.Request.Url.AbsoluteUri
        strTitle = Page.Title
        Session("PageTitle") = <strong>strTitle</strong>
        Session("PageURL") = <strong>strURL</strong>
    End Sub

End Class 

HTML

Because I’m nice, here are the URL structures for various social networking sites.

<ul id="share">
<li id="email"><a href="<%=Page.ResolveUrl("~/email-to.aspx")%>" title="Email this to a friend">Email this to a friend </a></li>
<li id="delicious"><a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=<%=strURL%>&amp;title=<%=strTitle %>">Del.icio.us</a></li>
<li id="digg"><a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=<%=strURL%>&amp;title=<%=strTitle %>">Digg</a></li>
<li id="facebook"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u<%=strURL%>">Facebook</a></li>
<li id="furl"><a href="http://furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=<%=strTitle%>&amp;u=<%=strURL%>">Furl</a></li>
<li id="google"><a href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&amp;bkmk=<%=strURL%>&amp;title=<%=strTitle %>">Google Bookmarks</a></li>
<li id="linkedin"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=<%=strURL%>&amp;title=<%=strTitle %>">LinkedIn</a></li>
<li id="myspace"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/Modules/PostTo/Pages/?u=<%=strURL%>">Myspace</a></li>
<li id="reddit"><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=<%=strURL%>&amp;title=<%=strTitle %>">Reddit</a></li>
<li id="stumbleupon"><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<%=strURL%>&amp;title=<%=strTitle %>">StumbleUpon</a></li>
<li id="windowslive"><a href="https://favorites.live.com/quickadd.aspx?url=<%=strURL%>&amp;title=<%=strTitle %>">Windows Live</a></li>
</ul> 

And that is that.

You could use something like Add This but this gives you more control over the html and output.

And for icons (if you want them), I suggest Social Media Mini Iconpack.

There may be other ways to do this with .net, so let me know.

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