Sync Quickstart for C# (ASP.NET MVC)

This application should give you a ready-made starting point for writing your own real-time apps with Sync. Before we begin, we need to collect all the config values we need to run the application:

Config Values	Description
Service Instance SID	A service instance where all the data for our application is stored and scoped. Generate one using the command below.
Account SID	Your primary Twilio account identifier - find this in the console here.
API Key	Used to authenticate - generate one here in the console.
API Secret	Used to authenticate - just like the above, you can use the console to generate one here.

Temporary: Generating a Service Instance

During the Sync developer preview, you will need to generate Sync service instances via API until the Console GUI is available. Using the API key pair you generated above, generate a service instance via REST API with this PowerShell command:

Invoke-WebRequest https://preview.twilio.com/Sync/Services `
 -Method POST `
 -Body @{FriendlyName="MySyncServiceInstance"} `
 -Credential (Get-Credential)

When prompted, provide your API Key as the user and your API Secret as the password.

If you prefer to use curl, the command would be:

curl -X POST https://preview.twilio.com/Sync/Services \
 -d 'FriendlyName=MySyncServiceInstance' \
 -u 'SKXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:your_api_secret'

A Note on API Keys

When you generate an API key pair at the URLs above, your API Secret will only be shown once - make sure to save this in a secure location, or possibly your system environment variables.

Setting Up The Application

After downloading the repo, copy the TwilioSyncQuickstart/Web.config.example to Web.config in the same directory. Next, open up TwilioSyncQuickstart.sln in Visual Studio. Edit Web.config with the four values we obtained above:

<appSettings>
	<add key="TwilioAccountSid" value="ACxxx" />
	<add key="TwilioApiKey" value="SKxxx" />
	<add key="TwilioApiSecret" value="xxxxxxxx" />
	<add key="TwilioSyncServiceSid" value="ISxxxx" />
</appSettings>

You should now be ready to rock! Hit F5 or the Play button, and you should land on the home page of our Tic-Tac-Twilio app. Open it up in a few browser tabs and play with the app!

License

MIT