# Hazelcast C# Client
C#/.NET client implementation for Hazelcast, the open source in-memory data grid. A comparison of features supported by the C# Client vs the Java client can be found here.
C# client is implemented using the Hazelcast Open Binary Client Protocol
## Documentation
The docs for the C# client can be reached at http://docs.hazelcast.org/docs/latest/manual/html/csharpclient.html
## How to build
Hazelcast C# Client is developed using VS2013 Community Edition, which can be downloaded for free from Microsoft.
Hazelcast assemblies are signed using a strong name key. To be able to build the project, you will need to create your own strong name key.
This can be done using the sn.exe tools which ships with .NET framework.
sn -k hazelcast.snk
Furthermore, you will need to update Hazelcast.Net/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs with the new public key.
[assembly: System.Runtime.CompilerServices.InternalsVisibleTo(@"Hazelcast.Test, PublicKey=00240000049e....b3")]
To get the new public key, use the following commands:
sn -p hazelcast.snk hazelcast.key
sn -tp hazelcast.key
All the tests use NUnit, and require a hazelcast.jar and JVM to run the hazelcast instance. The script build.bat will attempt to download hazelcast.jar for the latest snapshot from Maven Central and will run the tests using the downloaded jar.
Please join the mail group if you are interested in using or developing Hazelcast.
http://groups.google.com/group/hazelcast
Hazelcast is available under the Apache 2 License. Please see the Licensing appendix for more information.
Copyright (c) 2008-2015, Hazelcast, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Visit www.hazelcast.com for more info.