User guide

AWS CloudFormation Programming with the
AWS SDK for .NET
The AWS SDK for .NET supports AWS CloudFormation, which creates and provision AWS infrastructure
deployments predictably and repeatedly. For more information, see AWS CloudFormation.
The following information introduces you to the AWS CloudFormation programming models in the SDK
for .NET.
Programming Models
The SDK for .NET provides two programming models for working with AWS CloudFormation. These
programming models are known as the low-level and resource models.The following information describes
these models, how to use them, and why you would want to use them.
Low-Level APIs
The SDK for .NET provides low-level APIs for programming with AWS CloudFormation. These low-level
APIs typically consist of sets of matching request-and-response objects that correspond to HTTP-based
API calls focusing on their corresponding service-level constructs.
The following example shows how to use the low-level APIs to list accessible resources in AWS
CloudFormation:
// using Amazon.CloudFormation;
// using Amazon.CloudFormation.Model;
var client = new AmazonCloudFormationClient();
var request = new DescribeStacksRequest();
var response = client.DescribeStacks(request);
foreach (var stack in response.Stacks)
{
Console.WriteLine("Stack: {0}", stack.StackName);
Console.WriteLine(" Status: {0}", stack.StackStatus);
Console.WriteLine(" Created: {0}", stack.CreationTime);
var ps = stack.Parameters;
if (ps.Any())
{
Console.WriteLine(" Parameters:");
foreach (var p in ps)
{
Console.WriteLine(" {0} = {1}",
p.ParameterKey, p.ParameterValue);
}
}
}
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