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Greetings to all! 

As a proud member of this community, I always wanted to show my appreciation towards Liferay, its philosophy and the great people behind it. And that's why I spent the last few weeks building something to share with the whole community, in the hope that it will be useful in your projects and with the ultimate goal to enrich the Liferay ecosystem. So, without further ado, let me introduce...

Liferay SDK for Windows

The Liferay SDK for Windows is a new block in the Liferay Mobile SDK project. It consists of a Portable Class Library (PCL) for the .NET platform which enables your apps to easily consume the JSON web services exposed by Liferay and your plugins. It is written in C# and to date it targets the following platforms:

• .NET Framework 4.5.1
• Windows 8.1
• Windows Phone 8.1

Anyway, it should be relatively easy to extend support for older platforms, so let me know if you're interested!

The Liferay SDK for Windows is an accurate port of the official Android and iOS SDKs and therefore it supports the same set of features, such as batch and asynchronous requests, non-primitive and binary arguments, and so on. But a simple example is worth a thousand words:

using Liferay.SDK;
using Liferay.SDK.Service.V62.BlogsEntry;
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var session = new Session(new Uri("http://localhost:8080"), "test@liferay.com", "test");

var service = new BlogsEntryService(session);

var entries = await service.GetGroupEntriesAsync(10184, 0, -1, -1);   // Async call!

// entries is a IEnumerable<dynamic> collection

foreach (var entry in entries)
{
    Console.WriteLine(entry.title);   // Duck typing!
}

The SDK library is generated by a template-based builder written in Java which integrates with the official Liferay Mobile SDK (thanks to Bruno for his help!) and can be used to generate the service classes for your custom plugins.

So now, where can you find it?

The Liferay SDK for Windows is available on NuGet:

Install-Package Liferay.SDK

While the source code of the SDK and the Java builder is available on GitHub!

I hope this little project will be useful, and let me know what you think, if you find any bugs, etc. Any feedback is more than welcome!