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<\/a><\/p>\nAPI Documentation<\/h2>\n
As part of rolling out these new APIs we\u2019ve created a set of web pages to document them.\u00a0 The new VS Online REST, OAuth and Service Hook documentation is here: http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/integrate\/explore\/explore-vso-vsi<\/a><\/p>\n We\u2019ve also taken the opportunity to create a consolidated landing page for all our Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online content here: http:\/\/integrate.visualstudio.com<\/a><\/p>\n The docs have both good conceptual content and super simple API reference material like this section on how to get a work item with REST:<\/p>\n To experiment with it, many of the APIs can be exercised directly from your browser.\u00a0 For instance, if I browse to https:\/\/minka.visualstudio.com\/defaultcollection\/_apis\/wit\/workitems\/73<\/a> (minka is my personal account), I get something that looks like this. The precise output format you get depends on what browser you use and what plugins you have installed but the content is the same regardless.<\/p>\n \u2026 I\u2019m not going to show the whole thing because it\u2019s pretty big \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n The docs also have some simple samples and we\u2019re busy working on more.\u00a0 Here\u2019s one for C#:<\/p>\n I\u2019ll give you a better example using OAuth to support integrated auth (rather then embedding credentials) as soon as I get the chance.<\/p>\n If you want a \u201creal\u201d example, check out the source to our ZenDesk plugin on CodePlex: http:\/\/vsozendesk.codeplex.com<\/a><\/p>\n I also encourage you to check out Zapier<\/a>.\u00a0 There are a number of similar services but I like this one.\u00a0 It makes it really easy to wire up Service hook event producers to consumers.\u00a0 It provides a very nice wizard that walks you through the process.\u00a0 You can visit the Visual Studio Online Zapier page here: https:\/\/zapier.com\/zapbook\/visual-studio-online\/<\/a> to learn more about hooking VS Online up and see the hundreds of service connections they enable.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s some screen captures from the wizard to connect Visual Studio Online to Asana to show how easy it is.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\npublic static async void GetBuilds()\r\n{\r\n try\r\n {\r\n var username = \"username\";\r\n var password = \"password\";\r\n using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient())\r\n {\r\n client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(\r\n new System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue(\"application\/json\"));\r\n client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue(\"Basic\",\r\n Convert.ToBase64String(\r\n System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(\r\n string.Format(\"{0}:{1}\", username, password))));\r\n using (HttpResponseMessage response = client.GetAsync(\r\n \"https:\/\/{account}.visualstudio.com\/DefaultCollection\/_apis\/build\/builds\").Result)\r\n {\r\n response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();\r\n string responseBody = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();\r\n Console.WriteLine(responseBody);\r\n }\r\n }\r\n }\r\n catch (Exception ex)\r\n {\r\n Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());\r\n }\r\n}<\/code><\/pre>\nUsing Zapier to connect services<\/h2>\n