Implement conversations.create in C#

Question

I am looking at Slack’s documentation on conversations.create and I’m not sure how to integrate it in C#. Do I need to import their Slack API solution into my code to use it? Any help would be great!

Answer 1

To create a channel with C# all you need to do is make a POST request to the respective API method. channels.create will work, but I recommend the newer conversations.create API method.

There are many way how to you can make a POST request in C#. Here is an example using HttpClient, which is the preferred approach. Check out this post for alternatives.

Here is an example:

using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace SlackExamples
{
    class CreateChannels
    {
        private static readonly HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

        static async Task CreateChannel()
        {
            var values = new Dictionary<string, string>
            {
                { "token", Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SLACK_TOKEN") },
                { "name", "cool-guys" }
            };

            var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(values);
            var response = await client.PostAsync("https://slack.com/api/conversations.create", content);
            var responseString = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
            Console.WriteLine(responseString);
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            CreateChannel().Wait();
        }
    }
}

Note: The token you need it kept in an environment variable for security purposes, which is good practice.