This Developer’s Guide, provides information about setting up the development environment and developing applications using the VMware Infrastructure .NET Toolkit 1.0. VMware® provides several different SDK products, each of which targets different developer communities and target platforms. This guide is intended for developers who are creating applications for managing VMware Infrastructure components. The VMware Infrastructure .NET Toolkit is a client-side framework from VMware that simplifies the programming effort associated with the VMware Infrastructure API and server-side object model. It is a part of the VMware Infrastructure Toolkit (for Windows), which provides easy-to-use C# and PowerShell interface to VMware Infrastructure APIs. Using VI .NET Toolkit you can create, customize, or manage VMware Infrastructure inventory objects using VI APIs calls.