• General
• These are all VS2010 projects
• You will need to change some of the hardcoded SPSite URLS to yours- anywhere you see http://sp2010
• The first and third projects must be run on a SharePoint 2010 server.  As such, you need to insure that your project's framework targets are .Net 3.5 and the CPU targets are either x64 or AnyCPU -- do not try to use x86 for these.  The second project doesn't matter.  If you load the solution file, these will all be set properly.
• The first project is a visual webpart (AreaSpecialist) that accesses the user profile manager to pull down out a profile image, and allows the user to "give them Kudos" as it tracks their peer rating.
• You'll need to change the deploy location in the project settings.
• Remember to create the custom property in the user profile service application called "KudosRating" of type integer.
• This version of the code has the elevated privilege implemented.
• The second project is a windows form application (SocialBrowser) that allows a user to browse around your portal or the internet and it automatically adds any comments that have been made by folks within your organization to the datagrid at the bottom by accessing the SocialData webservice.
• You will need to change the URL for the social data webservice reference, and then choose "update webservice".
• The third project is a command line application that is a custom gatherer that imports and publishes twitter feeds to the SharePoint activity feed.
• Don't forget to create the custom profile property "TwitterAccount" and fill in a couple in your user's profiles.
• You need to run the "RegisterTwitterActivityApplication" at least once successfully (it's presently commented out in Program.Main).
• After you register the twitter application, doublecheck that "Twitter" is available as an ActivityType at the bottom of your "Edit Profile" screen (and check the box if it isn't already).
• Remember to deploy the RESX files to \14\Resources
• Remember to deploy the twitter image (if you want to use it) to \14\Templates\Images
• This code was cobbled together from the official custom gatherer sample as well as this blog post and this one.

To download all the sample code projects click the image below:

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