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Use platform APIs

Use platform APIs

- [Instructor] Our first objective is to perform operations with the Dataverse Web API. There are two web services available to interact with Dataverse data, data table definitions, and data operations: data service, which is called using the Web API, and the organization service, which is called using the SDK API. Let's look at the Web API first. Web API is an OData v4 RESTful endpoint. You can call it using any programming language that supports HTTP requests and authentication using OAuth 2.0. We'll go ahead and create a simple console application to connect to a Dataverse environment and invoke the Web API WhoAmI function. This function retrieves information about the logged on Dataverse user. To save time, the code has already been written. If you'd like to follow along and use this code, check out the associated article on Microsoft Learn. Let's run the program. We'll provide authentication. Then we can see…

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