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Lokad Software Development Kit for .NET
Lokad provides free Software Development Kit (SDK) for the .NET Developers. It is implemented on top of the
Forecasting API v2 and makes leveraging our forecasting technology a breeze.
Downloads
At the
downloads page you could obtain:
- Compiled DLL for developing .NET applications that leverage Lokad forecasting technologies. There are some samples there also.
- Sources for the Lokad SDK for .NET.
Resources
Features
- Communications library that allows to jump-start development of any .NET application leveraging Lokad forecasting technologies.
- Complete source code of Lokad Forecasting Add-in for Microsoft® Excel®.
- Shared Libraries with useful .NET helper classes and routines for business rules, validation, exception handling, logging and many other development aspects.
- Online reference documentation that is always up-to-date.
- Complete SDK source (also including sample applications and unit tests) that could be downloaded as archive or accessed at Google Code
- Open Source license for the SDK.
Getting Started
Connection Strings
Tips
- ILokadService creates Trace messages could be useful for debugging. They could be viewed in real-time within Visual Studio or by any trace listener tool (i.e. DebugView).
- LokadHelper class contains method to remove all invalid characters from the string (as defined by ApiRules on valid values).
- Do not worry about the connectivity issues - ILokadService will retry automatically on some common network problems.
Going further
- Lokad staff tries to answer all the questions raised in our forums.
- You can browse Lokad SDK project for real-world applications that leverage Lokad forecasting technologies.

All add-ons developed by Lokad have been released as open source under the
BSD license on
Google Code.
The BSD license is compatible with closed-source commercial applications. Integrating a forecasting technology has never been easier.
What people say
From a developer standpoint, we found that the Lokad API was very well
documented and easy to use. The Lokad team was also extremely
responsive to any questions we had. Most importantly, we were able to
develop a
Lokad plugin for our data browser in very short order.
Jeff Engel,
Kirix Corporation