Use IoT Platform SDK for .NET - IoT Platform - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

IoT Platform provides developers with an SDK for .NET. This topic describes how to install and configure IoT Platform SDK for .NET. This topic also describes how to use the SDK to call the API operations of IoT Platform.

Install IoT Platform SDK for .NET

Install .NET development environments.
IoT Platform SDK for .NET supports the following development environments:
- .NET Framework 4.5 and later
- .NET Standard 2.0 and later
- C# 4.0 and later
- Visual Studio 2010 and later
Install IoT Platform SDK for .NET by using the NuGet package manager.
In this example, Visual Studio is used.
1. In the Solution Explorer panel of Visual Studio, right-click your project and select Manage NuGet Packages.
2. In the NuGet Package Manager panel, click Browse.
3. On the Browse tab, enter aliyun-net-sdk in the search box and select the aliyun-net-sdk-iot package that is provided by Alibaba Cloud.
4. Click Install.

Initialize IoT Platform SDK for C++

The following example shows how to initialize the SDK if your IoT Platform service resides in the China (Shanghai) region:

Create the clientProfile object to store SDK initialization information. Then, create the client instance from DefaultAcsClient. Use the DefaultAcsClient(clientProfile) method to load the SDK initialization information.

using Aliyun.Acs.Core;
using Aliyun.Acs.Core.Exceptions;
using Aliyun.Acs.Core.Profile;

string accessKeyId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("ALIYUN_ACCESS_KEY_ID");
string accessKeySecret = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("ALIYUN_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET");

IClientProfile clientProfile = DefaultProfile.GetProfile("cn-shanghai", accessKeyId, accessKeySecret);
DefaultAcsClient client = new DefaultAcsClient(clientProfile);

The clientProfile object is used to store the SDK initialization information.

: the ID of region where you activated IoT Platform.
You can view the region in the upper-left corner of the IoT Platform console.
For more information about region IDs, see Supported regions.

Initiate a request

The SDK encapsulates two classes for each API operation. The class names are in the ${API operation name}+"Request" and ${API operation name}+"Response" formats.

${API operation name}+"Request": This class is used to call an API operation. You can use the request instance of this class and call the request.${request parameter name} method to configure the request parameters.
${API operation name}+"Response"You can call the GetAcsResponse(request) method of the client instance that is created from DefaultAcsClient to obtain a response. You can call the response response.${response parameter name} method of the response instance of the ${API operation name}+"Response" class to obtain the values of the response parameters.
For example, you can call the response.Success() method to obtain the value of the Success parameter. This parameter is a common response parameter that indicates whether a call is successful. Common response parameters also include the RequestId, ErrorMessage, and Code parameters.

For more information about the API operations of IoT Platform, see List of operations by function. For more information about the request and response parameters of each API operation, see the API documentation.

The following example shows how to call the Pub operation to publish a message to a topic. For more information about the request parameters, see Pub.

Important

In the following sample code, ${iotInstanceId} specifies the ID of an instance. You can view the ID of the instance on the Overview page in the IoT Platform console.

If your instance has an ID, you must specify the ID for this parameter. Otherwise, the request fails.
If no Overview page or ID is generated for your instance, you do not need to specify this parameter. You must delete the request code that is related to the IotInstanceId parameter or specify an empty string ("") for the parameter. Otherwise, the request fails.

For more information about IoT Platform instances, see Overview. For more information about how to purchase an instance, see Purchase Enterprise Edition instances. For more information about frequently asked questions, see FAQ about IoT Platform instances.

PubRequest request = new PubRequest();
request.IotInstanceId = "<iotInstanceId>"; 
request.ProductKey = "<productKey>";
request.TopicFullName = "/<productKey>/<deviceName>/get";
byte[] payload = Encoding.Default.GetBytes("Hello World.");
String payloadStr = Convert.ToBase64String(payload);
request.MessageContent = payloadStr;
request.Qos = 0;
try
{
   PubResponse response = client.GetAcsResponse(request);
   Console.WriteLine("publish message result: " + response.Success);
   Console.WriteLine(response.ErrorMessage);
}
catch (ServerException e)
{
   Console.WriteLine(e.ErrorCode);
   Console.WriteLine(e.ErrorMessage);
}
catch (ClientException e)
{
   Console.WriteLine(e.ErrorCode);
   Console.WriteLine(e.ErrorMessage);
}

Appendix: Sample code

You can view or download the sample code of API operations in IoT Platform SDK Sample Center. The sample code of the SDKs for Java, Python, PHP, .NET, and Go is provided.

Alibaba Cloud OpenAPI Explorer provides online debugging tools for API operations. On the API Debugging page, you can search for API operations, call API operations, and generate sample code for API operations of different SDKs. On the right side of the page, you can view the sample code of an SDK on the Sample Code tab. On the Debugging Result tab, you can view the actual request URL and response in the JSON format.