BackTypeSharp is a C# library that allows querying of BackType's API (www.backtype.com)

It was written in a fluent manner (or attempted) so that you can easily query BackType for information.

I started BackTypeSharp for a personal project and decided it could be useful to others and so I've decided to share it on CodePlex. I first saw BackType being used on Mashable.com. If you go to any story on Mashable's website and scroll towards the bottom you'll see a section called "Reactions" with comments from people posted via "BackType." A little research on BackType and a few days later I thought the "Reactions" was a neat idea and wanted to implement it into my own project. Since there were no libraries written in .NET to support interaction with the BackType API I created one.

I've used TweetSharp quite a bit and really enjoyed the fluent manner in which you execute requests so I attempted to model BackTypeSharp in a similar manner.

BackTypeSharp is far from a complete library and I will continue to work on it over time. If you'd like to help please feel free to contact me. There are some "tests" in the solution but I have no experience writing unit tests or doing TDD so I wouldn't rely on them. I would love to have someone who is experienced with writing unit tests help. If anything the test project shows how to query and get results using the library.

For more information on BackType you can visit the developer site here: BackType API Documentation

Check out the project on CodePlex here: BackTypeSharp

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Arrrr!!!

I was so frustrated by this issue today. I simply could not figure out why jQuery would return only 1 element for $("a") when I clearly had multiple anchor tags!

No matter what I did the length would always return 1.

I nearly missed the answer to the issue in a StackOverflow post. But it helped me find that jquery.validator was causing the issue. After going to the plug-in's website and downloading the latest version all was back to normal.

It's just unfortunate when you KNOW something is supposed to work right and you waste an hour trying to figure out why :(

Hopefully this post will help anyone with the same problem in the future and help them avoid any wasted time.