Comments on: WCF REST Starter Kit to Constant Contact Sample Application

By: james

james — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:48:13 +0000

Glad to hear it was helpful. That CC Terms and Conditions makes me a bit sad. Pushing responsibility into the developer’s code is not a great way of dealing with their own API limitations. I’ve given them that feedback in the past.

The existing example code is correct for 25 or less items. For an example of how to handle the bulk operations see the SynchronizeContacts methods in the ContactProvider. That code batches up a bunch of updates into one activity. You could easily modify that code to handle add operations (I might already have that in my production code).

Send me any useful updates you might create. I’ll add them to the sample. Cheers!

By: David Vasquez

David Vasquez — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:10:32 +0000

As strict as the T&C for API access is, how are you able to perform list additions on fewer than 25 contacts at a time. The docs recommend using 25 contacts as the threshold to begin using activities (ContactProvider.SynchronizeContacts).

Would it be worth while to add Contact List support to the Contact class in order to add less than 25 at a time? I’d hate to lose my API access because I wasn’t following the rules. Have you run into any problems with their recommended threshold?

Great work, by the way. Condensed and cleaned up my work considerably.

By: james

james — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:19:47 +0000

Constant Contact removed support for Digest authentication. Update the GetLoginCredentials() method to use Basic auth. More information here: http://developer.constantcontact.com/doc/authenticationBasic