Spotify.NET/SpotifyAPI.Docs/docs/introduction.md

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id: introduction
title: Introduction
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This open source library for the Spotify Web API provides an easy to use interface for .NET based languages, like C# and VisualBasic .NET. By using it you can query general spotify catalog information (tracks, albums and playlists), manage user-related content ("My Library", create and edit playlists) and control the users music players (play, stop, transfer playback, play specific track).

## Features

From version 6 onwards, the library was built with the following features included:

- ✅ Typed responses and requests to over 74 endpoints. Complete and always up to date.
- ✅ Supports `.NET 5.0` and `.NET Standard 2.X`, which includes all major platforms, including mobile:
  - `.NET Framework`
  - `UWP`
  - `.NET Core`
  - `Xamarin.Forms`
- ✅ Included `HTTPClient`, but feel free to bring your own!
- ✅ Logging supported
- ✅ Retry Handlers supported
- ✅ Proxy support
- ✅ Pagination support
- ✅ All OAuth2 Authentications supported for use in `ASP .NET` **and** `CLI` apps
- ✅ Modular structure, for easy unit testing
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			`title: Introduction`
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Update online docs 2020-06-03 16:44:13 +01:00			`This open source library for the Spotify Web API provides an easy to use interface for .NET based languages, like C# and VisualBasic .NET. By using it you can query general spotify catalog information (tracks, albums and playlists), manage user-related content ("My Library", create and edit playlists) and control the users music players (play, stop, transfer playback, play specific track).`

			`## Features`

			`From version 6 onwards, the library was built with the following features included:`

bump to 6.0.0 2020-11-14 12:30:59 +00:00			`- ✅ Typed responses and requests to over 74 endpoints. Complete and always up to date.`
			- ✅ Supports `.NET 5.0` and `.NET Standard 2.X`, which includes all major platforms, including mobile:
			- `.NET Framework`
			- `UWP`
			- `.NET Core`
			- `Xamarin.Forms`
			- ✅ Included `HTTPClient`, but feel free to bring your own!
			`- ✅ Logging supported`
			`- ✅ Retry Handlers supported`
			`- ✅ Proxy support`
			`- ✅ Pagination support`
			- ✅ All OAuth2 Authentications supported for use in `ASP .NET` and `CLI` apps
			`- ✅ Modular structure, for easy unit testing`