Microsoft EventKnowledge API: Windows Client Library & Sample

This repo contains the Windows client library & sample for the Microsoft EventKnowledge API, an easy-to-use API designed to help developers find and surface events related to specific entities. Just start with an entity from Wikipedia, and the API will provide a list of related events by time. It can also start with an event and return related news, or start with a date and return trending news related to the date. Additional controls allow you to include a limit on the number of results to return, or exclude specific items from the results.

• Learn about the EventKnowledge API
• Read the documentation
• Find more SDKs & Samples

The Client Library

The EventKnowledge API client library is a thin C# client wrapper for Microsoft EventKnowledge APIs.

The easiest way to use this client library is to get microsoft.projectoxford.eventknowledge package from nuget.

Please go to EventKnowledge API Package in nuget for more details.

Note: There’re synchronous and asynchronous methods for each API. The synchronous methods are easy-to-use wrappers of the asynchronous methods and may result in multiple calls to API.

The Sample

This sample is a Windows WPF application to demonstrate the use of Microsoft EventKnowledge API.

It demonstrates EventKnowledge API by specifying a date, using a Wikipedia ID or providing an event ID.

Build the Sample

1. Starting in the folder where you clone the repository (this folder)
2. In a git command line tool, type git submodule init (or do this through a UI)
3. Pull in the shared Windows code by calling git submodule update
4. Start Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and select File > Open > Project/Solution.
5. Go to Sample-WPF Folder.
6. Double-click the Visual Studio 2015 Solution (.sln) file EventKnowledgeAPI-WPF-Samples.
7. Press Ctrl+Shift+B, or select Build > Build Solution.

Run the Sample

After the build is complete, press F5 to run the sample.

First, you must obtain a EventKnowledge API subscription key by following instructions on our website.

Locate the text edit box saying “Paste your subscription key here to start” on the top right corner. Paste your subscription key. You can choose to persist your subscription key in your machine by clicking “Save Key” button. When you want to delete the subscription key from the machine, click “Delete Key” to remove it from your machine.

Click on “Select Scenario” to use samples of different scenarios, and follow the instructions on screen.

Contributing

We welcome contributions. Feel free to file issues and pull requests on the repo and we’ll address them as we can. Learn more about how you can help on our Contribution Rules & Guidelines.

You can reach out to us anytime with questions and suggestions using our communities below:

• Support questions: StackOverflow
• Feedback & feature requests: Cognitive Services UserVoice Forum

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

License

All Microsoft Cognitive Services SDKs and samples are licensed with the MIT License. For more details, see LICENSE.

Sample images are licensed separately, please refer to LICENSE-IMAGE

Developer Code of Conduct

Developers using Cognitive Services, including this client library & sample, are expected to follow the “Developer Code of Conduct for Microsoft Cognitive Services”, found at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=698895.