Using the Shopify API from .NET

If you're looking for a way to talk to Shopify from .NET (either C# or VB.NET), you'll probably come across this "lightweight" .NET client.

Word of warning: it's 10 MB, and pretty hard-core.

If you're writing a private app (as opposed to a public one), things are much simpler; you don't need all the OAuth stuff for starters. After a bit of trial and error, I got this to work:

	public string GetCustomers()
	{
	const string url = "https://your-store.myshopify.com/admin/customers.json";
	var req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
	req.Method = "GET";
	req.ContentType = "application/json";
	req.Credentials = GetCredential(url);
	req.PreAuthenticate = true;
	using (var resp = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse())
	{
	if (resp.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK)
	{
	string message = String.Format("Call failed. Received HTTP {0}", resp.StatusCode);
	throw new ApplicationException(message);
	}
	var sr = new StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream());
	return sr.ReadToEnd();
	}
	}
	private static CredentialCache GetCredential(string url)
	{
	ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Ssl3;
	var credentialCache = new CredentialCache();
	credentialCache.Add(new Uri(url), "Basic", new NetworkCredential("your-api-key", "your-password"));
	return credentialCache;
	}

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To generate an API key and password, go to http://your-store.myshopify.com/admin/apps, and click "Create a private API key" at the bottom.