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Setup the SDK

1

Install the SDK

The package is hosted on Nuget. You can either install it from your Visual Studio’s Nuget package manager, or through the NuGet CLI:
nuget install Statsig
2

Initialize the SDK

Next, initialize the SDK with a client SDK key from the “API Keys” tab on the Statsig console. These keys are safe to embed in a client application.Along with the key, pass in a User Object with the attributes you’d like to target later on in a gate or experiment.
using Statsig;
using Statsig.Client;

await StatsigClient.Initialize(
    "client-sdk-key",
    new StatsigUser { UserID = "some_user_id", Email = "user@email.com" },
    new StatsigOptions(new StatsigEnvironment(EnvironmentTier.Development)) // optional, use when needed to customize certain behaviors
);

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Use the SDK

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Checking a Feature Flag/Gate

Now that your SDK is initialized, let’s check a Feature Gate. Feature Gates can be used to create logic branches in code that can be rolled out to different users from the Statsig Console. Gates are always CLOSED or OFF (think return false;) by default. 
if (StatsigClient.CheckGate("new_homepage_design"))
{
  // Gate is on, show new home page
}
else
{
  // Gate is off, show old home page
}

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Reading a Dynamic Config

Feature Gates can be very useful for simple on/off switches, with optional but advanced user targeting. However, if you want to be able send a different set of values (strings, numbers, and etc.) to your clients based on specific user attributes, e.g. country, Dynamic Configs can help you with that. The API is very similar to Feature Gates, but you get an entire json object you can configure on the server and you can fetch typed parameters from it. For example: 
DynamicConfig config = StatsigClient.GetConfig("awesome_product_details");

// The 2nd parameter is the default value to be used in case the given parameter name does not exist on
// the Dynamic Config object. This can happen when there is a typo, or when the user is offline and the
// value has not been cached on the client.
string itemName = config.Get<string>("product_name", "Awesome Product v1");
double price = config.Get<double>("price", 10.0);
bool shouldDiscount = config.Get<bool>("discount", false);

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Getting a Layer/Experiment

Then we have Layers/Experiments, which you can use to run A/B/n experiments. We offer two APIs, but we recommend the use of layers to enable quicker iterations with parameter reuse. 
// Values via getLayer

Layer layer = StatsigClient.GetLayer("user_promo_experiments");
var promoTitle = layer.Get("title", "Welcome to Statsig!");
var discount = layer.Get("discount", 0.1);

// or, via getExperiment

DynamicConfig  titleExperiment = StatsigClient.GetExperiment("new_user_promo_title");
DynamicConfig  priceExperiment = StatsigClient.GetExperiment("new_user_promo_price");

var promoTitle = titleExperiment.Get("title", "Welcome to Statsig!");
var discount = priceExperiment.Get("discount", 0.1);

...

double price = msrp * (1 - discount);

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Logging an Event

Now that you have a Feature Gate or an Experiment set up, you may want to track some custom events and see how your new features or different experiment groups affect these events. This is super easy with Statsig - simply call the Log Event API for the event, and you can additionally provide some value and/or an object of metadata to be logged together with the event: 
StatsigClient.LogEvent(
    "add_to_cart",
    "SKU_12345",
    new Dictionary<string, string>() {
        { "price", "9.99" },
        { "item_name", "diet_coke_48_pack" }
    }
);

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Statsig User

You need to provide a StatsigUser object to check/get your configurations. You should pass as much information as possible in order to take advantage of advanced gate and config conditions. Most of the time, the userID field is needed in order to provide a consistent experience for a given user (see logged-out experiments to understand how to correctly run experiments for logged-out users). Besides userID, we also have email, ip, userAgent, country, locale and appVersion as top-level fields on StatsigUser. In addition, you can pass any key-value pairs in an object/dictionary to the custom field and be able to create targeting based on them. Once the user logs in or has an update/changed, make sure to call updateUser with the updated userID and/or any other updated user attributes: 
// if you want to update the existing user, or change to a different user, call updateUser

await StatsigClient.UpdateUser(
    new StatsigUser { UserID = "new_user_id", Email = "new_user@email.com" },
);

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Private Attributes

Have sensitive user PII data that should not be logged? No problem, we have a solution for it! On the StatsigUser object we also have a field called privateAttributes, which is a simple object/dictionary that you can use to set private user attributes. Any attribute set in privateAttributes will only be used for evaluation/targeting, and removed from any logs before they are sent to Statsig server. For example, if you have feature gates that should only pass for users with emails ending in “@statsig.com”, but do not want to log your users’ email addresses to Statsig, you can simply add the key-value pair { email: "my_user@statsig.com" } to privateAttributes on the user and that’s it!

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Statsig Options

Initialize() takes an optional parameter options in addition to sdkKey and user that you can provide to customize the Statsig client.
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environment
StatsigEnvironment
default:"null"
Set environment variables that apply to all users in the session for targeting purposes. Commonly used to set the environment tier, e.g. new StatsigEnvironment(EnvironmentTier.Staging).
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ClientRequestTimeoutMs
int
default:"0"
Maximum milliseconds to wait for /initialize before proceeding with cached/default values.
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PersistentStorageFolder
string
default:"null"
Directory path for persistent storage of cached values and logs.

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Shutting Statsig Down

In order to save users’ data and battery usage, as well as prevent logged events from being dropped, we keep event logs in client cache and flush periodically. Because of this, some events may not have been sent when your app shuts down. To make sure all logged events are properly flushed or saved locally, you should tell Statsig to shutdown when your app is closing: 
StatsigClient.Shutdown();

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FAQs

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How do I run experiments for logged out users?

See the guide on device level experiments
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