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Help using the dotnet documentation
I'm trying to understand and use the API for dotnet. I'm finding it hard to use the online documentation and I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing.
For instance, I'm using Files.DownloadA...
Thanks for the feedback! Dropbox.Api.Files and Dropbox.Api.Files.Routes are each linked separately in the sidebar at the top level here:
https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/R_Project_DotNetApiDocumentation.htm
The docs themselves don't have search built in, but you can search the doc site using a web search engine, such as:
I suppose that helps me locate teh IDownloadResponse page, but I can't reproduce your path. I can get to the Dropbox_api_files section, but I don't see Routes. In fact if I click on https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/N_Dropbox_Api_Files.htm and search for "routes" on the page, nothing comes up. Further more I don't know how I would have known to click on routes, I'm sure there's some rational, but it doesn't seem obvious to me. BTW, the arrow glyphs on the left side don't always work.
Is there a search functionallity?
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for the feedback! Dropbox.Api.Files and Dropbox.Api.Files.Routes are each linked separately in the sidebar at the top level here:
https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/R_Project_DotNetApiDocumentation.htm
The docs themselves don't have search built in, but you can search the doc site using a web search engine, such as:
That will do, thanks. Maybe somebody could bolt that google link onto the website :)
Paul
There is defintely something wrong here with the API documentation.
To do a simple file download, all of the sample coding I have researched, including the final sample that actually worked uses the following method call to perform the actual download...
loDropBoxClient.Files.DownloadAsync("/ResearchIndex Files" + "/AvailableExtensionsList.txt")The object, "loDropBoxClient", is my successfully, instantiated cleint. And as one can see, it uses the "Files" namespace with the subordinated method, "DownloadAsync".
However, there is absolutely no way one can backtrack this in the ApI Reference Documentation as the snapshot beliow demonstrates...
Missing "DownloadAsync" Method
As one can see, the methods for the "DropBox.API.Files" namespace does not include the "DownloadAsync" method.
This is the type of issue I have opened a new thread for and the relates to the issue that the poster of this thread has described...
- Greg-DB
snaidamast Thanks for the additional detail! I see you opened a new thread so I'll follow up with you there.
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