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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:
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
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staffsnaidamast Thanks for the additional detail! I see you opened a new thread so I'll follow up with you there.
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