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jakealake
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

Batch Dropbox Thumbnails .net SDK

Hello -  Echoing some of the past sentiment here about the .net SDK samples being thin.  I've spent a day or two looking for a good example on how to prepare the parameters and build the call to th...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    5 years ago

    You can make a list of ThumbnailArg and use it to call GetThumbnailBatchAsync like this:

     

    var paths = new String[] { "/Photos/1.jpg", "/Photos/2.jpg"};

var thumbnailsArgs = new List<ThumbnailArg> { };
foreach (var path in paths)
{
    thumbnailsArgs.Add(new ThumbnailArg(path: path, format: ThumbnailFormat.Png.Instance));
}

GetThumbnailBatchResult getThumbnailBatchResult = await this.client.Files.GetThumbnailBatchAsync(thumbnailsArgs);
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jakealake
Explorer | Level 4

Thanks Greg-DB! 

This looks pretty much like what I ended up doing!   Did I miss this in the SDK examples somewhere?

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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

No, this isn't in the examples for the SDK. I just wrote that for this thread.

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