.Net SDK developer guide

.NET Specific Resources

Technical Resources

• .NET API Documentation
• .NET SDK Code Samples
• .NET SDK GitHub
• Temporal 101 in .NET Free Course

Community

• Temporal .NET Community Slack
• .NET SDK Forum

Core Application

Use the essential components of a Temporal Application (Workflows, Activities, and Workers) to build and run a Temporal application.

• Develop a basic Workflow Definition
• Develop a basic Activity Definition
• Start an Activity from a Workflow
• Run a Worker Process
• Set a Dynamic Workflow
• Set a Dynamic Activity

Temporal Client

Connect to a Temporal Service and start a Workflow Execution.

• Create a Temporal Client
• Connect to Temporal Cloud
• Start a Workflow
• Get Workflow results

Testing

Set up the testing suite and test Workflows and Activities.

• Test frameworks
• Testing Workflows
• Testing Activities
• Replay test

Failure Detection

Explore how your application can detect failures using timeouts and automatically attempt to mitigate them with retries.

• Workflow timeouts
• Workflow retries
• Activity timeouts
• Set an Activity Retry Policy
• Heartbeat an Activity
• Heartbeat Timeout

Workflow Message Passing

Send messages to and read the state of Workflow Executions.

• Define Signal
• Send a Signal from a Temporal Client
• Send a Signal from a Workflow
• Signal-With-Start
• Dynamic Handler
• Set a Dynamic Signal
• Define a Query
• Send Queries
• Set a Dynamic Query
• Define an Update
• Send an Update

Interrupt a Workflow

Interrupt a Workflow Execution with a Cancel or Terminate action.

• Cancel a Workflow
• Terminate a Workflow

Asynchronous Activity Completion

Complete Activities asynchronously.

• Asynchronous Activity

Versioning

Change Workflow Definitions without causing non-deterministic behavior in current long-running Workflows.

• Use the .NET SDK Patching API

Observability

Configure and use the Temporal Observability APIs.

• Emit Metrics
• Set up Tracing
• Log from a Workflow
• Use Visibility APIs

Debugging

Explore various ways to debug your application.

• Debug in a development environment
• Debug in a development production

Schedules

Run Workflows on a schedule and delay the start of a Workflow.

• Schedule a Workflow
• Create a Scheduled Workflow
• Backfill a Scheduled Workflow
• Delete a Scheduled Workflow
• Describe a Scheduled Workflow
• List a Scheduled Workflow
• Pause a Scheduled Workflow
• Trigger a Scheduled Workflow
• Update a Scheduled Workflow
• Use Start Delay

Data Encryption

Use compression, encryption, and other data handling by implementing custom converters and codecs.

• Use a custom Payload Codec
• Use a custom Payload Converter

Durable Timers

Use Timers to make a Workflow Execution pause or "sleep" for seconds, minutes, days, months, or years.

• Sleep

Child Workflows

Explore how to spawn a Child Workflow Execution and handle Child Workflow Events.

• Start a Child Workflow Execution
• Set a Parent Close Policy

Continue-As-New

Continue the Workflow Execution with a new Workflow Execution using the same Workflow ID.

• Continue-As-New