Redmine Cookbook

Using the Redmine REST API with C#

This recipe creates a basic C# desktop application that enables a user to select a project from a drop-down list, and then create a new issue in Redmine, taking the data from the form's fields.

Getting ready

You need Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition or newer.

How to do it…

To create C# client for Redmine, we either need a ready-made C# library, or access to the Redmine API directly and parse responses, which is much more complicated. To create a sample C# app, follow these steps:

1. Start Visual Studio and create a new project, choose Windows Forms Application:
   
2. Name it RedmineTest and click OK.
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