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    <title>topic Re: Help using the dotnet documentation in Dropbox API Support &amp; Feedback</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Help-using-the-dotnet-documentation/m-p/380962#M21267</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1235488"&gt;@snaidamast&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thanks for the additional detail! I see you &lt;A href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Discuss-Developer-API/Re-DropBox-API-Documentation/m-p/380924#M867" target="_self"&gt;opened a new thread&lt;/A&gt; so I'll follow up with you there.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2019 17:41:15 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2019-11-26T17:41:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Help using the dotnet documentation</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Help-using-the-dotnet-documentation/m-p/378046#M21186</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I'm trying to understand and use the API for dotnet.&amp;nbsp; I'm finding it hard to use the online documentation and I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;For instance, I'm using&amp;nbsp;Files.DownloadAsync.&amp;nbsp; I found a page with a few simple examples, but now I want to see how what it returns.&amp;nbsp; The example uses var response = await dbx.File.DownloadAsync(path), which doens't tell me what the response type is.&amp;nbsp; The example would be better if it was possible to explicitly show the types.&amp;nbsp; But now how do I find more info on DownloadAsync and what it returns?&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I can find the help but the navigation on the left side doens't work.&amp;nbsp; When I try to open a category, like Drop API it doens't always show anything.&amp;nbsp; If I start from the root I can navigate down to Dropbox.API.Files, which I think woudl be the right place, but I don't see an DownloadAsync listed.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I can use C# to help me understand the type that is returend, which I discover is IDownloadResponse, but how to find that in the help?&amp;nbsp; There is also not a way to search the help.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;What is the best why to search and find things in the dotnet help?&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Thanks, Paul&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:06:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Help-using-the-dotnet-documentation/m-p/378046#M21186</guid>
      <dc:creator>PaulELong</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-11-12T15:06:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Help using the dotnet documentation</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Help-using-the-dotnet-documentation/m-p/378085#M21187</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks for the post, and I'm sorry to hear about the confusion.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;You can find the full documentation for the official&amp;nbsp;Dropbox API v2 .NET SDK hosted here:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/R_Project_DotNetApiDocumentation.htm" target="_blank"&gt;https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/R_Project_DotNetApiDocumentation.htm&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;There are a a number of sections listed in the sidebar. The&amp;nbsp;Dropbox.Api Namespace, for instance, contains top level objects:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/N_Dropbox_Api.htm" target="_blank"&gt;https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/N_Dropbox_Api.htm&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;For instance, that contains DropboxClient:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/T_Dropbox_Api_DropboxClient.htm" target="_blank"&gt;https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/T_Dropbox_Api_DropboxClient.htm&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;And, for each area of the API, there is a namespace each for the types and routes. For instance, the&amp;nbsp;Dropbox.Api.Files Namespace lists the Files types here:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/N_Dropbox_Api_Files.htm" target="_blank"&gt;https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/N_Dropbox_Api_Files.htm&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;And the&amp;nbsp;Dropbox.Api.Files.Routes Namespace contains the&amp;nbsp;FilesUserRoutes class:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/N_Dropbox_Api_Files_Routes.htm" target="_blank"&gt;https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/N_Dropbox_Api_Files_Routes.htm&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The&amp;nbsp;FilesUserRoutes Class lists all of the methods for the Files&amp;nbsp;API routes:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/T_Dropbox_Api_Files_Routes_FilesUserRoutes.htm" target="_blank"&gt;https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/T_Dropbox_Api_Files_Routes_FilesUserRoutes.htm&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;For example, that lists&amp;nbsp;DownloadAsync:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/M_Dropbox_Api_Files_Routes_FilesUserRoutes_DownloadAsync_1.htm" target="_blank"&gt;https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/M_Dropbox_Api_Files_Routes_FilesUserRoutes_DownloadAsync_1.htm&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;And that includes the response type, linking to&amp;nbsp;IDownloadResponse:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/T_Dropbox_Api_Stone_IDownloadResponse_1.htm" target="_blank"&gt;https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/T_Dropbox_Api_Stone_IDownloadResponse_1.htm&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Hope this helps!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:53:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Help-using-the-dotnet-documentation/m-p/378085#M21187</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-11-12T16:53:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Help using the dotnet documentation</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Help-using-the-dotnet-documentation/m-p/378087#M21188</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I suppose that helps me locate teh IDownloadResponse page, but I can't reproduce your path.&amp;nbsp; I can get to the Dropbox_api_files section, but I don't see Routes.&amp;nbsp; In fact if I click on &lt;A href="https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/N_Dropbox_Api_Files.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/N_Dropbox_Api_Files.htm&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;and search for "routes" on the page, nothing comes up.&amp;nbsp; 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.&amp;nbsp; BTW, the arrow glyphs on the left side don't always work.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Is there a search functionallity?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:04:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Help-using-the-dotnet-documentation/m-p/378087#M21188</guid>
      <dc:creator>PaulELong</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-11-12T17:04:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Help using the dotnet documentation</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Help-using-the-dotnet-documentation/m-p/378109#M21189</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks for the feedback! Dropbox.Api.Files and Dropbox.Api.Files.Routes are each linked&amp;nbsp;separately in the sidebar at the top level here:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/R_Project_DotNetApiDocumentation.htm" target="_blank"&gt;https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/R_Project_DotNetApiDocumentation.htm&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The docs themselves don't have search built in, but you can search the doc site using a web search engine, such as:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;q=IDownloadResponse%20site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fdropbox.github.io%2Fdropbox%2Dsdk%2Ddotnet%2F" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;q=IDownloadResponse%20site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fdropbox.github.io%2Fdropbox%2Dsdk%2Ddotnet%2F&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:20:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Help-using-the-dotnet-documentation/m-p/378109#M21189</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-11-12T18:20:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Help using the dotnet documentation</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Help-using-the-dotnet-documentation/m-p/378121#M21191</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;That will do, thanks.&amp;nbsp; Maybe somebody could bolt that google link onto the website &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/html/@FBF7D2AB59A0D6E861EBF6A36F93B7E2/emoticons/1f642.png" alt=":slightly_smiling_face:" title=":slightly_smiling_face:" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Paul&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:09:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Help-using-the-dotnet-documentation/m-p/378121#M21191</guid>
      <dc:creator>PaulELong</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-11-12T19:09:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Help using the dotnet documentation</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Help-using-the-dotnet-documentation/m-p/380932#M21266</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;There is defintely something wrong here with the API documentation.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;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...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE&gt;loDropBoxClient.Files.DownloadAsync("/ResearchIndex Files" + "/AvailableExtensionsList.txt")&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;The object, "loDropBoxClient", is my successfully, instantiated cleint.&amp;nbsp; And as one can see, it uses the "Files" namespace with the subordinated method, "DownloadAsync".&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;However, there is absolutely no way one can backtrack this in the ApI Reference Documentation as the snapshot beliow demonstrates...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Missing &amp;quot;DownloadAsync&amp;quot; Method" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/12465i9E7F8C60A7CF7F32/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="MissingDownloadAsyncMethod.png" alt="Missing &amp;quot;DownloadAsync&amp;quot; Method" /&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();"&gt;Missing "DownloadAsync" Method&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;As one can see, the methods for the "DropBox.API.Files" namespace does not include the "DownloadAsync" method.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;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...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:58:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Help-using-the-dotnet-documentation/m-p/380932#M21266</guid>
      <dc:creator>snaidamast</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-11-26T15:58:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Help using the dotnet documentation</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Help-using-the-dotnet-documentation/m-p/380962#M21267</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1235488"&gt;@snaidamast&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thanks for the additional detail! I see you &lt;A href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Discuss-Developer-API/Re-DropBox-API-Documentation/m-p/380924#M867" target="_self"&gt;opened a new thread&lt;/A&gt; so I'll follow up with you there.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2019 17:41:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Help-using-the-dotnet-documentation/m-p/380962#M21267</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-11-26T17:41:15Z</dc:date>
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