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The .NET SDK for CloudStack provides a client side library to allow Microsoft .NET programs to access the CloudStack REST APIs.

Background

Wiki MarkupThe CloudStack API is loosely based on the REST architecture \ [2\]. Whilst providing a good deal of flexibility for a developer, it also has the potential to impose a heavy cost in that the developer is responsible for marshalling all the request arguments into the required format; correctly signing the request; dealing with asynchronous methods; handling fault conditions and parsing the response fields.

The .NET SDK for CloudStack addresses these issues for developers in the Microsoft .NET environment by concealing all of these implementation details underneath a high level request/response API that is directly accessible from all .NET supported languages.

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