What is the purpose of sharepoint API and where we use it?

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I need to consume the SharePoint and yammer API's.

I do not have any knowledge on API's. Please explain what is SharePoint API and how we can consume it. I am using Visual Studio 2005 with framework 2.0. Is it possible to work with API's using visual studio 2005 with c# and asp.net framework 2.0?

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Limitations of Web API & Web API in visual studio 2005 with framework 2.0

Posted 6-Dec-16 22:33pm

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Updated 6-Dec-16 22:49pm

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Pete O'Hanlon · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-06T22:49:00

The API is, effectively, a contract that the Sharepoint team has exposed. What this means is, if you supply a web request to the appropriate API "endpoint", some action will be taken that corresponds to the call you have made; this might be to update something, retrieve data, and so on. Now, these APIs are exposed as REST APIs, which means that any code that you write is going to have to be able to communicate over HTTP following REST conventions.

To be honest, doing this in VS2005, while possible, is going to require you to write a lot more code than if you were using a later version of VS and ASP. Is there a reason you have to stick with this platform? If you absolutely must use VS2005, then you need to follow the instructions and link from this[^].