http://developers.blog.box.net Announcements and API Changes for the Box.net Storage and Sharing Platform Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:50:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The iPhone is a powerful platform for creating content, viewing files and communicating with friends and associates. One of the big problems we've seen, however, is that it's difficult to share documents with others from the phone. Many solutions exist but they require large amounts of custom code, building or ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/11/13/more-support-for-iphone-integration-with-box/ While providing additional resources for mobile application developers, we realized that we needed to do more to promote the efforts of our development community, both for our partners who create OpenBox Actions and for individual developers who have created compelling and unique integrations.  Through a joint effort with engineering and ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/10/25/promoting-developers-through-the-openbox-directory/ This month we have some great news for mobile app developers, and some more great news for all OpenBox developers. We recently launched OpenBox Mobile, a program geared to helping mobile applications interact with Box.  Through programming libraries, sample code, and recommended API methods to optimize calls, we look forward ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/09/15/working-with-mobile-developers-openbox-mobile/ Many new platform partners are recently joining the OpenBox directory (with plenty more to come) by leveraging OpenBox Actions.  For those of you who are more familiar with the API than OpenBox Actions, Actions enable you to bring your own service's functionality into the Box environment - a different direction ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/08/31/getting-started-with-openbox-actions/ The OpenBox platform is designed for incredible flexibility to let developers create the widest variety of integrations possible.  But we also notice trends among applications and like to help simplify those common tasks.  For instance, many services wish to transfer files to a user's Box account often performing the same ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/07/31/send-files-to-box-easily-with-quick-import/ In another small enhancement from developer requests, we're providing a new API method - copy.  This can be called similarly to the move method, by simply specifying which file you would like to copy, and to which folder.  That should help to further optimize code for many of your applications. Some ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/06/17/new-api-method-copy/ For our developers who expressed interest in creating some simple integrations with Box using Visual Basic, we have some helper code to offer, thanks to the efforts of David Roberts. You can download his basic sample code from our documentation page to get started. David's code can help you to ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/05/23/more-sample-code-for-the-api-visual-basic/ Many of our more complex API methods are designed for flexibility, so that you can request exactly the content you need, and only the content you need.  For example, the get_account_tree method allows you to customize and optimize your request by specifying optional parameters.  If you just want to display ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/05/06/api-update-optimizing-get_account_tree/ We are happy to provide our developers with a .NET library to make your development projects easier.  You can access this library by visiting the sample code section of our developer documentation.  The source code was written in C#, but the compiled library can be used with any .NET programming ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/04/21/new-net-library-and-c-code-for-the-boxnet-api/ After receiving feedback from members of our development community, we have decided to  provide a small platform enhancement for this week, introducing a new API method: get_account_info. This new method provides basic information about an authenticated user such as the amount of space a user has left in one's account.  The ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/04/08/new-api-method-get_account_info/