Develop .NET apps
Learn how to develop your own .NET applications that use Kontent.ai APIs.
Table of contents
SDKs and API references
We highly recommend using SDKs to make your app development easier.
Delivery API
Get content from your Kontent.ai projects with Delivery API. Check out our best practices for getting content and examples on filtering content.
Management API
Manage your Kontent.ai projects, import content, and automate content operations with Management API. Streamline user management with Subscription API.
The Management SDK supports both Management API and Subscription API.
Postman collection
Get to know the Kontent.ai APIs with the popular Postman client. Find more about the APIs and their availability in the API reference.
Get started tutorials
If you are new to the .NET world, go through these tutorials. They should get you up to speed before you dig into the sample apps.
- Run ASP.NET Core MVC sample app
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Sample apps
Do you already know what framework you want to explore? Check one of these sample apps. If you have any questions, ideas for improvement, or you get stuck in code, feel free to submit a GitHub issue.
Dive deeper
Take your Kontent.ai-powered apps further with the following APIs and features.
- Smart link SDK automatically creates edit links in your web app based on HTML data attributes provided in your app. The SDK also lets you connect your website with Web Spotlight.
- Synchronize latest content changes with webhooks or via Sync API to keep your cache up to date.
- Image transformation API is a real-time image manipulation and optimization API. Check our image optimization guide to speed up image delivery in your app.
- Custom Elements API lets you implement your own custom elements and use methods from this JavaScript API.
Strongly-typed models
Both the Delivery and Management SDK support strongly-typed (POCO) models based on the content types in your Kontent.ai project.
You can generate strongly-typed models automatically by using the .NET Generator.
By using strongly-typed models, you get:
- Type safety during compile-time
- Convenient usage in code –
@Article.ArticleTitlevs.@Article.GetString("article_title") - Support for type-dependent features such as display templates in MVC
ASP.NET Core extensions
If you're developing an ASP.NET Core web app, the ASP.NET Core extensions package will give you helper classes for easier development. For example, you can use img-asset tag helper for more convenient work with responsive images via Image transformation API, and a webhook validator to verify your webhooks.
Jamstack
Jamstack is an architecture designed to make the web faster, more secure, and easier to scale out of the box.
The first step is to choose is a static site generator (SSG). A static site generator combines data from Kontent.ai with specific visual templates, and prerenders a static site, which you can host on a CDN.
