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Soapi.Explore SL
##About
About
Soapi.Explore SL is a Silverlight based annotated test harness for the Stack Exchange API. All API methods and parameters are fully supported.
###Features:
Features:
- Sites are updated automatically - you may query any site in the Stack Exchange network.
- Includes StackAuth support
- All parameters are documented in tooltips and are validated.
- Min/Max parameters are properly typed for the chosen Sort
- Multi-Page results are fully supported.
- JSON output may be copied to the clipboard.1
- coming soon structured data output that is sortable, filterable and exportable.
1 In order to deal with large datasets, a custom virtualized listbox is used to display the JSON. You may not select text to copy but may press ctrl+c to copy the entire result to the clipboard.
###Known Issues
Known Issues
- Silverlight, when accessing the API, does not have the ability to detect error details. All API errors will be reported in the JSON output as 'Not Found'.
###License
License
Soapi.Explore SL is free to use and is licensed under GPL V2.
###Download
Download
Soapi.Explore SL is hosted at http://soapi.info/explore.aspx
###Platform
Platform
Any platform/browser that supports Silverlight 3. This includes Windows and MacOS.
A Windows Phone 7 version will be forthcoming.
##Contact
Contact
Soapi.Explore SL was created by code poet.
##Code
Code
Soapi.Explore SL was written in C# 3.0 using Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend as a sample reference implementation for the Soapi.CS client library.
Full source code for Soapi.Explore SL is found in the samples folder of the Soapi.CS source code.
Soapi.Explore SL is the logical extension of the JavaScript application SOAPI-EXPLORE, which is dynamically generated from the API meta data.
The difference is that the JS version is a sanity check tool that reflects the current state of the API, whatever that may be, and this Silverlight application is finely tuned to the API version 1.0 as published.
