Re: Documenting .Net APIs

Subject: Re: Documenting .Net APIs
From: Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>
To: "salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com" <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:29:46 -0700

One company I spoke with cited stripe.com 's API doc as an example to beat.
Then again, everyone's got an API. That's what the cool kids are doing.

-Tony

On Tuesday, June 23, 2015, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Although I've been a techwriter for over 25 years, I've never documented
> APIs. I also have zero familiarity with .Net and C# programming.
>
> But now I have to take a test and only have 44 hours left to complete the
> assignment. It's a blog post to instruct ABC app developers how to use XYZ
> company's API set as part of their (ABC's) own custom deployment to XYZ's
> cloud platform.
>
> - XYZ's platform is for both Windows and Unix.
> - I've looked at a sample XYZ API set, full of .cs, .xml, and config
> files.
>
> Obviously Windows users can make use of Visual Studio (VS), and it appears
> that there is a VS Unix counterpart. Is this correct?
>
> How might you proceed with this assignment, given the running clock?
>
> Thanks
>
> > Chris
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