Adapter SDK Development Prerequisites

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites are required to develop an adapter:

  • an Fusion Agent installed on your development machine,
  • a .NET IDE

Visual Studio 2022

This guide assumes you are using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 IDE. You can download it here. You will need to obtain the license.

Before continuing with this guide, please install Visual Studio 2022 with default workloads.

Fusion Agent

The Fusion Agent must be installed to use the adapter SDK.

⚠️ To use the SDK and samples, you'll need a tenant in Fusion server. Make sure you have one before continuing.

The Fusion Agent must be installed on the same machine that will be used for development.

  1. Download the latest agent from the Fusion system you are using.
  2. After installation, stop the agent services.
  3. Open Windows Services manager (run services.msc).
  4. Change the user that agent services are running as to the user you are logged in as.
    1. Double click on a service.
    2. Click the Log On As tab.
    3. Enter your Windows user credentials.
  5. When all services are set to Log On As you, complete the following:
    1. Go to the agent installation directory (usually C:\Program Files\Fusion\Agent)
    2. Open the bin folder
    3. Double-click AccessHandler.exe
    4. Enter your Fusion connection details (tenant, email address, and password)
  6. Start the agents.

Configuring the SDK nuget feed

SDK nuget packages are packaged with the agent installer.

  1. Open your Visual Studio and click Tools > Options
  2. Navigate to NuGet Package Manager / Package Sources screen
  3. Add the directory containing the nuget packages as a feed.

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