SKYAPI Software Developer Kit (SDK) Documentation

Steven Rozaitis

Just wondering if anyone can point me to documentation for the SKY API SDK for Visual Studio?

Alex Wong

@Steven Rozaitis
I'm not sure Blackbaud has a SDK, what language are you trying to code SKY API in?

Steven Rozaitis

@Alex Wong
It's not very well advertised, but there is an SDK for Visual Studio (it works for VB and C#.Net). The main problem is I can't find good documentation for it, and there are hundreds of .dlls and thousands of classes.

Steven Cinquegrana

@Steven Rozaitis You might have already found and had a look at our SKYLib•NET Code Library and SDK for SKY. If so, yes, admittedly the documentation is kinda thin on the ground, but in defense, there is simply no way we could keep a live document covering every API and endpoint. We maintain an FAQ that covers many questions, however.

The APIs and endpoints include the documentation provided by the SKY OpenAPI documents, so there is plenty of documentation in that sense.

Let me know if you have any questions or need assistance getting started. (By the way, the SDK includes full source code for two sample applications, one in C# and one in VB, to get you up and running. Using these you can have an application working in - literally - a matter of minutes.)

Steve Cinquegrana | CEO and Principal Developer | Protégé Solutions

Eric Eskildsen

@Steven Rozaitis EDIT: I posted about how to generate an SDK, then realized you're looking for documentation for a third-party SDK. Removing my answer so as not to clutter up this thread. I'll post it separately.

Alex Wong

@Steven Rozaitis
There are some who already gave some pointer to what is available publicly.

While I have not need to do this, the basic idea is to generate via the OPEN API JSON that you can download from developer.blackbaud.com

from there, you can Google for how to generate code from OPEN API JSON. If/when you are struck, you can come back to this community to get more help.

Not sure what you plan to develop or do with SKY API, but there are very good option to use Power Automate (low/no code) create/sync data into data warehouse, create Add-ins that customize the experience in RE/FE NXT, custom complex app. I have done both high-code and low/no code, and my opinion is you will do far better/faster using your high-code skillset with a low-code platform as many of the “coding overhead” is already taken care of.

Good luck