This project allows developers to flawalessly access the functionailty of Monero applications through the Core assemblies' RPC services. As the software is open-source, everyone can contribute, achieving the best performance and reliability for end-users.

Why is this API necessary?
It makes the implementation of Monero extremely easy for merchants, wallet builders, and all the other developers who are interested in working with (or accepting) Monero. Also, the core developers can concentrate more on the internals (instead of spending time on the official GUI client), which means that the currency should advance faster.

Is it cross-platform?
The first 3 releases of the API were only made for desktop PCs running Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 or higher, thus, resulting in a smaller userbase than wanted. Since v3, the project has been split into 2 subprojects, one which is responsible for communicating with the daemon and the account manager's RPC channel, and one which can manage the required processes on PC.

What kind of platforms can utilize the power of Monero API .NET, then?
Basically every device which has support for running the Microsoft .NET Portable Framework v4, and more: Microsoft is planning to provide native (C++) compilation of C# assemblies very soon, and this process can be even faster since .NET Core has been made open-source.
The project can run on PCs (Windows; Mac and Linux with Mono .NET), mobile phones (Windows Phone; Android and iOS with Xamarin), and even on video game consoles like Xbox.

How does it work?
As I have already mentioned above, the project consists of 2 parts: MoneroAPI, and MoneroAPI.Extensions. The first one is built as a PCL (portable class library) and is multiplatform, while the extensions are desktop-only and contain functions for hosting a full node. Basically, MoneroAPI is preferable for lightweight, client-only applications, and MoneroAPI.Extensions adds support for hosting the Monero Core processes with ease.
There is a demo project included in the GitHub repository for a more technical explanation.

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I'll add support for that as soon as I can retrieve it from the core RPC.

Until then, here is an update I've just posted on the #monero-dev IRC channel:

Thanks for all the feedback provided! Right now, I'm working on fully separating the API part from the GUI, thus, I've created a new GitHub repository for Monero API .NET, which could be used by merchant services to easily utilize Monero core functions from the Microsoft .NET programming languages.

I've just gone on a 1-week holiday, though, but will try to continue the developments as soon as I have time (for instance, airplanes are perfect places for this task ).

It sounds weird that you were able to successfully create a new account, then, as this surely is an assembly location problem...

Please try removing Monero Client .NET's folder from '%LocalAppData%\Jojatekok' before starting the application next time. If that doesn't solve your issue, I'll think about other causes.

The true strength of Monero can be seen by having people who are frightened by its existence. This forum thread is a perfect proof that the scammy Bytecoin's users are extremely jealous, foreseeing the success of a truly anonymous and fairly distributed coin, XMR.

That's absolutely normal, as the only way determining that you have a password-protected or non-protected account is trying to open it without using a password first. That's why the 'invalid password' "error" always occurs at least once for people who have protected accounts.

Also, the reason behind the slow initialization of bitmonerod is not my fault (as it is started in the background as soon as my client's GUI appears), but the core assembly's. You may also have noticed that there is a delay asking for encrypted accounts' passphrases: that's because the daemon's RPC takes that long to initialize! Until then, I cannot even show a progress bar, because there is no data about loading progress percentage which could be presented. The new "daemonized" daemon (made by the core team) would solve this issue, but it's not ready for production yet.



You are probably missing 'simplewallet.exe' from the '\Resources\Software' directory, please check whether re-downloading the entire 'Resources' folder resolves your issue.

Finally, after 4 months of waiting period, a new stable release has arrived. Version 0.40.0 focuses on compatibility between the latest core binaries and the GUI, thus, allowing v0.8.8.6 builds to be utilized.

What has been changed?
Compared to the previous stable release (v0.38.2), lots of improvements have been made. I'll try to summarize the most important ones below:

• [v0.39.0-rc.3] Started to utilize the latest stable version of bitmonerod
• [v0.39.0-rc.1] Added support for displaying mnemonic account seeds
• [v0.39.0-rc.3] Added indonesian translation
• [v0.39.0-rc.3] Fixed all the shutdown-related bugs (including one which made saving the blockchain impossible)
• [v0.39.0-rc.3] Fixed a menu localization issue
• [v0.39.0-rc.2] Removed blockchain and account auto-saving, as it might have caused file corruptions

Enjoy using the newest release, and please consider contributing to the localization project, report bugs, and donate to the core development team if you can!

Hooray! It's time for me to present a new release of my project. I would like to dedicate it to the core development team, who have been working so hard lately that they broke all the older versions of my client.

There are still many things to be improved, but at least, for people who already have an account since v0.38.1, this release will provide stability along with usefulness. I've also tried to implement account file creation, but it seems that the core team has even changed the format of accounts, thus, new account files are not compatible with my software anymore. I'll resume to the newly-appearing issues later, but let's see what was improved in 2015's first .NET client release:

• Started to utilize the latest stable version of bitmonerod
• Added indonesian translation
• Fixed all the shutdown-related bugs (including one which made saving the blockchain impossible)
• Fixed a menu localization issue

Plans for the future
As you may have already heard, Microsoft is making their .NET Framework's source code open for the public, thus, giving a chance for porting .NET applications to other platforms in the future. That is also a reason behind returning to the development of Monero Client .NET.

I would like to announce a roadmap for those who are still curious about the next things to come.

First of all, I have to tell that v0.39 releases have featured a lot of new technologies in the background. It was the first set of releases to support the "daemonized" bitmonerod and rpcwallet, which are still in a beta development state by the core team. That's the main reason why there wasn't a release of my client which could be labelled fully stable. As it seems to take some time to advance to these new technologies by the core team (merging them with new developments like the embedded blockchain DB or the new account seed generation mechanism), I decided not to continue the development of v0.39 releases, but build a stable v0.40 which returns back to the usage of - the latest - simplewallet and the non-experimental version of bitmonerod.

Further on, this project consists of 2 parts: one which is responsible for the communication with the background workers' RPC interfaces, and one which renders the GUI, utilizing the API subproject. My idea is to separate the 2 subprojects in order to provide .NET developers an easy way to interact with the RPC without the need of implementing JSON data decoders by self. This may even encourage more people to help in project development, and would make it easy to create robust block explorers in ASP.NET (Microsoft's web development platform).

As I have already mentioned sometime before, I'm 17 years old, so I have to study now in order to acquire a great career later. I also have other programming projects to work on, but I do all these things for my own entertainment in my free time. Please bear in mind that it's not easy to keep up with these extra activities I do besides school, so developments will be slower than during the summer.

Enjoy the new release, and donate some XMR to the core development team who made this project exist!

I haven't tried it, but based on the screenshots, it's nice work.

There are not only promises, but real developments going under the hood. There could be a whistleblower for sure, but that'd mean promises without product.

Poloniex did log all the trollbox activity dating back to march (basically everything excluding the first 15000 messages).

Busoni was very kind with me yesterday and provided all the chat log data to be hosted on http://www.polonibox.com/, thus, everyone can search through all the conversations, including the earliest ones!

+1

I have always wondered why the altcoin developers like to fight instead of making a great unite. As a Monero fan (and third-party GUI developer), I respect Boolberry, its fundamentals, and the people behind it. We are all aiming for the same goal: mainstream cryptocurrency adoption.

Permalinks are now available for each message: You can easily link a conversation excerpt to anyone!

https://github.com/Jojatekok/monero-client-net/issues/14

You should use the latest pre-release version (v0.39+) with the latest 'bitmonerod.exe' file, which can be found in the ANN topic of XMR.

Although application shutdown will not be functioning well by using "non-daemonized" daemon builds, you should have a stable client experience with this method. I'm waiting for the core developers to issue a new release of the daemon in order to fix the shutdown issue and improve stability.

The markets are too calm, just like before a storm...

Breaking news! Search functionality has just been added.



Meh, it's only the very beginning of something awesome

Some changes have been made to the service in the past hours:

• A new, darker skin
• Ability to reflect the behaviour of '/me' and '/tiny' commands
• Fixed pagination

Of course, thank you for the love! I've just added my Monero address and published some updates.

There is a lot of discussion going on Poloniex's trollbox, and there are no (wo)men who are able to follow all the conversations, and observe the reputation and trustworthiness of users and their statements. Thus, I felt a need to create a service which solves the problem of trust, and encourages people to be responsible, discouraging anyone from scamming others.

I started hosting the project on a free web server, but the demand made the host's servers overloaded. The great words of the Poloniex trollbox made me decide to buy my first domain and web storage:

I proudly present http://polonibox.com/, a trollbox tracker website which I have made and will be working on. Please donate if you can, in order to let me pay the price of the servers.

Basically, anything which is possible using the Poloniex API, as this is a full implementation of it. New push API features have been added to the exchange, so I'll try to implement them too as soon as possible.