Each Touchstone® API has a corresponding tutorial. Each tutorial has the following components:

• Lists of tasks that you can perform by using the API    
• Syntax of the API method called to perform the task
• Input parameters, which are properties of the Request class for each method
• Returned values, which are properties of the Response class for each method
• Commented example code, which you can use as a “cookbook” to perform each task

To run a tutorial, perform the following steps:

1. Open Visual Studio 2015.
2. Open the Tutorial solution.
3. In the Solution Explorer, open the App.config file for the tutorial that you wish to run.
4. In each endpoint address, substitute your own server name for the [ServerHost] placeholder.
5. Scroll down to the bottom of the file.
6. Under <appSettings>, provide values for the following parameters:
   1. BusinessUnitName – Create a name for the Business Unit containing the data with which you wish to work. This can be an office location, group, department, or division name or anything else that you like.
   2. SqlServerName – Enter the name of your SQL Server that hosts the Databases with which you wish to work.
   3. SqlServerDataPath – Enter the local data path to your SQL Server.
   4. WorkLocationPath – Enter the path to your test data. This path must be accessible to the Touchstone and HPC servers.
7. Right-click the tutorial project name. For example, right-click 01. Data Source Management.
8. Select Debug > Start new instance.

   A console displays containing a menu.

9. Type the number of the task that you wish to perform and then press Enter.
10. Enter the value of any other properties that the console displays and then press Enter.

    After a short pause, the returned output displays.