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eBay SDK ‘hello world’ in C#

Published by jeffrey on September 9, 2003 05:01 pm under .NET, Web/Tech, eBay

I figured that since I addressed one of the most remote edge cases of eBay API development the other day, I should close the loop by posting one of the most common cases (using the SDK with C#).

Using the SDK for Windows is cake compared to the API way (which takes about 100 lines of code to do the same thing, forcing you to use MSXML to handle XML parsing and the HTTP request and response). This SDK version of GeteBayOfficialTime also has the benefit of returning a DateTime type, whereas the API way returns an ISO date that you have to parse to play nice with VB6 or .NET.

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  1. Angelo Dimech on February 3rd, 2005

    Hej,
    I am new to eBay APi and i just started a simple application to make a call to get ebay time using your code. The application compiles but, an error the user/password pari specified for the user is not valid. you may not use an email address as a uswername if the member has a UserID…

    But when i log on to http://www.ebay.com then i can login successfully. can you help me out please.

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