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Announcing SteemSharp – a new .NET library for steem
Lately I have intermittently been looking at interacting with the steem blockchain. I’m a windows guy. I know my way around *nix systems but it’s not my natural habitat. I looked into several possibilities to get things working and nothing really works out of the box. 
#### Alternatives
Piston and its evolvement steem-python don’t compile easily on windows. Using some sourcery I finally got it working but the moment the project is changed I have to redo. It’s just not made to be used like this and I don’t have the ambition to contribute to the project to change this. Don’t get me started on Javascript. Use google to learn why so many don’t like it. There are some others: ruby, rust, golang, PHP. There is an actively maintained Java library. I haven’t tried it so I can’t comment on it. I have some limited experience with Java but on Windows C# is a better choice in many occasions.
#### Motivation
The Windows platform has a big user base. Even in corporate environments windows servers are used a lot more than *nix lovers want to admit. The .NET platform is deeply integrated with the windows platform and very often makes for an obvious choice.

Making a C# assembly would allow all .NET developers to access the steem blockchain. Be it VB.NET or any of the [other languages that conform the CLI]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CLI_languages). There are two other .NET libraries available. Steem.NET (too pity I can’t use that name) and Ditch. The former one does not seem to be actively maintained and does not support all actions. The second one is open source but was made with some design decisions I don’t support and I’m not able to contact the developers to contribute or discuss possible improvements.

Another reason is that I want to gain a better understanding of the blockchain itself. What better way than directly interfacing it?
#### Goals
At the moment I’m just experimenting. I don’t have any code structure yet but I am able to communicate over websocket and retrieve certain information. For example the current block index:
<center> ![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1508874901/tv3rtmfrbyhqyqthcgdv.png)</center>
My short term goal is to clean this experimental code up and give it some structure. Next make a repository and add it and get the project started in public. The first bigger objective is get all RPC calls that don’t require signing working. Next I’ll go into the signed ones. It should end up with the same functionalities as the more used steem-python.
#### Visibility
Since there is so little available for Windows I would like to support this great platform with a good library. Therefore feedback is worth a lot. This is a first announcement to give the project some traction. Once the the first checkins have been made I will  try to get it added to http://steemtools.com and similar sites. For now I’m trying to reach out to developpers here on steemit, my own followers and anyone in #steemdev.
If you are interesting in this project feel free to comment. I’m looking forward too all feedback.
<center>![](https://i.imgsafe.org/bd/bd1a18901b.png)</center>
<center>Proud minnow, eager to grow.</center>

<br /><hr/><em>Open Source Contribution posted via https://utopian.io</em><hr/>
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@littleboy · (edited)
Change the category to development instead of visibility. Since you are the developer.
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@littleboy · 
Please provide proof of work so that we can verify you are making contributions.
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@jefpatat · 
I can't really provide much more than the screenshot which shows my experiment is working. I outlined in the post why I don't have code yet and why I feel this is something for the visibility category and not the dev category. If you feel it doesn't apply please don't accept the entry, you are the moderator. I can live with it.
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@elear · (edited)
I agree with @littleboy here. Lets move it under dev category. As for the proof of work we can safely say it is there since the Github repository has the same account name as owner.
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@elear · 
@jefpatat the real issue here is that the repo contains no code. Can you fix that on top of everything?
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@yabapmatt ·
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Hi @jefpatat - I am also a .NET developer and would love to see more tools and support for Steem development using it.  I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to update Steem.NET rather than create something completely new. I know @arcange is still quite active and would probably welcome updates to it.
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@jefpatat · 
I have chatted with the developer. You can't use it to do any signed transactions (vote, post, ...). There's also quite some API missing and IMHO the project won't scale well. I'd rather start from scratch. (Also because this is a good exercise in my learning process). Ditch is a lot better I think.
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@yabapmatt · (edited)
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Ah, I didn't know you couldn't vote/post etc with Steem.NET, that's definitely a big gap. Let me know when you start to check in some initial code for your .NET library and I will take a look and see if i can help out!

Out of curiosity, what design decisions in Ditch do you not support?
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@yabapmatt · (edited)
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Had issues with SteemIt (what's new right?) and it double posted, so this is me editing the second comment!
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@revo · 
I'm following this with great interest, @jefpatat.  I've wondered about how hard it would be to do the same thing myself.  I hate javascript, and I don't know any python (although I could pick up easily).  .NET, despite being ruled by evil corporate overlords, is mature, extremely well documented and has massive commercial support behind it.  Nodejs is embarrassing in comparison..
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