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<h3 style="margin-top:0px;">C# Quick Start</h3>
<p class="lead">This guide gets you started with gRPC in C# with a simple
working example.</p>
<div id="toc"></div>
<h3 id="before-you-begin">Before you begin</h3>
<h4 id="prerequisites">Prerequisites</h4>
<p>Whether you&rsquo;re using Windows, OS X, or Linux, you can follow this
example by using either an IDE and its build tools,
or by using the the .NET Core SDK command line tools.</p>
<p>First, make sure you have installed the
<a href="https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/v1.20.0/src/csharp/README.md#prerequisites">gRPC C# prerequisites</a>.
You will also need Git to download the sample code.</p>
<h3 id="download-the-example">Download the example</h3>
<p>You&rsquo;ll need a local copy of the example code to work through this quickstart.
Download the example code from our GitHub repository (the following command
clones the entire repository, but you just need the examples for this quickstart
and other tutorials):</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4"><code class="language-sh" data-lang="sh">$ <span style="color:#75715e"># Clone the repository to get the example code:</span>
$ git clone -b v1.20.0 https://github.com/grpc/grpc
$ cd grpc</code></pre></div>
<p>This document will walk you through the &ldquo;Hello World&rdquo; example.
The projects and source files can be found in the <code>examples/csharp/Helloworld</code> directory.</p>
<p>The example in this walkthrough already adds the necessary
dependencies for you (<code>Grpc</code>, <code>Grpc.Tools</code> and <code>Google.Protobuf</code> NuGet packages).</p>
<h3 id="build-the-example">Build the example</h3>
<h4 id="using-visual-studio-or-visual-studio-for-mac">Using Visual Studio (or Visual Studio for Mac)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Open the solution <code>Greeter.sln</code> with Visual Studio</li>
<li>Build the solution</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="using-net-core-sdk-from-the-command-line">Using .NET Core SDK from the command line</h4>
<p>From the <code>examples/csharp/Helloworld</code> directory:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4"><code class="language-sh" data-lang="sh">&gt; dotnet build Greeter.sln</code></pre></div>
<p><em>NOTE: If you want to use gRPC C# from a project that uses the &ldquo;classic&rdquo; .csproj files (supported by Visual Studio 2013, 2015 and older versions of Mono), please refer to the
<a href="https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/v1.20.0/examples/csharp/HelloworldLegacyCsproj/README.md">Greeter using &ldquo;classic&rdquo; .csproj</a> example.</em></p>
<h3 id="run-a-grpc-application">Run a gRPC application</h3>
<p>From the <code>examples/csharp/Helloworld</code> directory:</p>
<ul>
<li>Run the server</li>
</ul>
<div class="highlight"><pre style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4"><code class="language-sh" data-lang="sh">&gt; cd GreeterServer
&gt; dotnet run -f netcoreapp2.1</code></pre></div>
<ul>
<li>In another terminal, run the client</li>
</ul>
<div class="highlight"><pre style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4"><code class="language-sh" data-lang="sh">&gt; cd GreeterClient
&gt; dotnet run -f netcoreapp2.1</code></pre></div>
<p>Congratulations! You&rsquo;ve just run a client-server application with gRPC.</p>
<h3 id="update-a-grpc-service">Update a gRPC service</h3>
<p>Now let&rsquo;s look at how to update the application with an extra method on the
server for the client to call. Our gRPC service is defined using protocol
buffers; you can find out lots more about how to define a service in a <code>.proto</code>
file in <a href="/docs/tutorials/basic/csharp/">gRPC Basics: C#</a>. For now all you need to know is that both the
server and the client &ldquo;stub&rdquo; have a <code>SayHello</code> RPC method that takes a
<code>HelloRequest</code> parameter from the client and returns a <code>HelloResponse</code> from the
server, and that this method is defined like this:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4"><code class="language-C#" data-lang="C#"><span style="color:#75715e">// The greeting service definition.
</span><span style="color:#75715e"></span>service Greeter {
<span style="color:#75715e">// Sends a greeting
</span><span style="color:#75715e"></span> rpc SayHello (HelloRequest) returns (HelloReply) {}
}
<span style="color:#75715e">// The request message containing the user&#39;s name.
</span><span style="color:#75715e"></span>message HelloRequest {
<span style="color:#66d9ef">string</span> name = <span style="color:#ae81ff">1</span>;
}
<span style="color:#75715e">// The response message containing the greetings
</span><span style="color:#75715e"></span>message HelloReply {
<span style="color:#66d9ef">string</span> message = <span style="color:#ae81ff">1</span>;
}
</code></pre></div>
<p>Let&rsquo;s update this so that the <code>Greeter</code> service has two methods. Edit
<code>examples/protos/helloworld.proto</code> and update it with a new <code>SayHelloAgain</code>
method, with the same request and response types:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4"><code class="language-C#" data-lang="C#"><span style="color:#75715e">// The greeting service definition.
</span><span style="color:#75715e"></span>service Greeter {
<span style="color:#75715e">// Sends a greeting
</span><span style="color:#75715e"></span> rpc SayHello (HelloRequest) returns (HelloReply) {}
<span style="color:#75715e">// Sends another greeting
</span><span style="color:#75715e"></span> rpc SayHelloAgain (HelloRequest) returns (HelloReply) {}
}
<span style="color:#75715e">// The request message containing the user&#39;s name.
</span><span style="color:#75715e"></span>message HelloRequest {
<span style="color:#66d9ef">string</span> name = <span style="color:#ae81ff">1</span>;
}
<span style="color:#75715e">// The response message containing the greetings
</span><span style="color:#75715e"></span>message HelloReply {
<span style="color:#66d9ef">string</span> message = <span style="color:#ae81ff">1</span>;
}
</code></pre></div>
<p>(Don&rsquo;t forget to save the file!)</p>
<h3 id="generate-grpc-code">Generate gRPC code</h3>
<p>Next we need to update the gRPC code used by our application to use the new service definition.</p>
<p>The <code>Grpc.Tools</code> NuGet package contains the protoc and protobuf C# plugin binaries needed
to generate the code. Starting from version 1.17 the package also integrates with
MSBuild to provide <a href="https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/src/csharp/BUILD-INTEGRATION.md">automatic C# code generation</a>
from <code>.proto</code> files.</p>
<p>This example project already depends on the <code>Grpc.Tools.1.20.0</code> NuGet package so just re-building the solution
is enough to regenerate the code from our modified <code>.proto</code> file.</p>
<p>You can rebuild just like we first built the original
example by running <code>dotnet build Greeter.sln</code> or by clicking &ldquo;Build&rdquo; in Visual Studio.</p>
<p>The build regenerates the following files
under the <code>Greeter/obj/Debug/TARGET_FRAMEWORK</code> directory:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>Helloworld.cs</code> contains all the protocol buffer code to populate,
serialize, and retrieve our request and response message types</li>
<li><code>HelloworldGrpc.cs</code> provides generated client and server classes,
including:
<ul>
<li>an abstract class <code>Greeter.GreeterBase</code> to inherit from when defining
Greeter service implementations</li>
<li>a class <code>Greeter.GreeterClient</code> that can be used to access remote Greeter
instances
<br /></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="update-and-run-the-application">Update and run the application</h3>
<p>We now have new generated server and client code, but we still need to implement
and call the new method in the human-written parts of our example application.</p>
<h4 id="update-the-server">Update the server</h4>
<p>With the <code>Greeter.sln</code> open in your IDE, open <code>GreeterServer/Program.cs</code>.
Implement the new method by editing the GreeterImpl class like this:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4"><code class="language-C#" data-lang="C#"><span style="color:#66d9ef">class</span> <span style="color:#a6e22e">GreeterImpl</span> : Greeter.GreeterBase
{
<span style="color:#75715e">// Server side handler of the SayHello RPC
</span><span style="color:#75715e"></span> <span style="color:#66d9ef">public</span> <span style="color:#66d9ef">override</span> Task&lt;HelloReply&gt; SayHello(HelloRequest request, ServerCallContext context)
{
<span style="color:#66d9ef">return</span> Task.FromResult(<span style="color:#66d9ef">new</span> HelloReply { Message = <span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;Hello &#34;</span> + request.Name });
}
<span style="color:#75715e">// Server side handler for the SayHelloAgain RPC
</span><span style="color:#75715e"></span> <span style="color:#66d9ef">public</span> <span style="color:#66d9ef">override</span> Task&lt;HelloReply&gt; SayHelloAgain(HelloRequest request, ServerCallContext context)
{
<span style="color:#66d9ef">return</span> Task.FromResult(<span style="color:#66d9ef">new</span> HelloReply { Message = <span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;Hello again &#34;</span> + request.Name });
}
}
</code></pre></div>
<h4 id="update-the-client">Update the client</h4>
<p>With the same <code>Greeter.sln</code> open in your IDE, open <code>GreeterClient/Program.cs</code>.
Call the new method like this:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4"><code class="language-C#" data-lang="C#"><span style="color:#66d9ef">public</span> <span style="color:#66d9ef">static</span> <span style="color:#66d9ef">void</span> Main(<span style="color:#66d9ef">string</span><span style="color:#a6e22e">[]</span> args)
{
Channel channel = <span style="color:#66d9ef">new</span> Channel(<span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;127.0.0.1:50051&#34;</span>, ChannelCredentials.Insecure);
<span style="color:#66d9ef">var</span> client = <span style="color:#66d9ef">new</span> Greeter.GreeterClient(channel);
String user = <span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;you&#34;</span>;
<span style="color:#66d9ef">var</span> reply = client.SayHello(<span style="color:#66d9ef">new</span> HelloRequest { Name = user });
Console.WriteLine(<span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;Greeting: &#34;</span> + reply.Message);
<span style="color:#66d9ef">var</span> secondReply = client.SayHelloAgain(<span style="color:#66d9ef">new</span> HelloRequest { Name = user });
Console.WriteLine(<span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;Greeting: &#34;</span> + secondReply.Message);
channel.ShutdownAsync().Wait();
Console.WriteLine(<span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;Press any key to exit...&#34;</span>);
Console.ReadKey();
}
</code></pre></div>
<h4 id="rebuild-the-modified-example">Rebuild the modified example</h4>
<p>Rebuild the newly modified example just like we first built the original
example by running <code>dotnet build Greeter.sln</code> or by clicking &ldquo;Build&rdquo; in Visual Studio.</p>
<h4 id="run">Run!</h4>
<p>Just like we did before, from the <code>examples/csharp/Helloworld</code> directory:</p>
<ul>
<li>Run the server</li>
</ul>
<div class="highlight"><pre style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4"><code class="language-sh" data-lang="sh">&gt; cd GreeterServer
&gt; dotnet run -f netcoreapp2.1</code></pre></div>
<ul>
<li>In another terminal, run the client</li>
</ul>
<div class="highlight"><pre style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4"><code class="language-sh" data-lang="sh">&gt; cd GreeterClient
&gt; dotnet run -f netcoreapp2.1</code></pre></div>
<h3 id="what-s-next">What&rsquo;s next</h3>
<ul>
<li>Read a full explanation of how gRPC works in <a href="/docs/guides/">What is gRPC?</a>
and <a href="/docs/guides/concepts/">gRPC Concepts</a></li>
<li>Work through a more detailed tutorial in <a href="/docs/tutorials/basic/csharp/">gRPC Basics: C#</a></li>
<li>Explore the gRPC C# core API in its <a href="/grpc/csharp/api/Grpc.Core.html">reference
documentation</a></li>
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