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Smart Contract Framework

The .NET framework is an encapsulation of the Smart Contract API, which helps .NET programmers obtain the blockchain data, persistent storage data, and NeoVM execution status easily using the classes, methods, and properties of the core Neo module.

Neo.SmartContract.Framework mainly provides the following API methods:

  • Interoperability Layer Methods

  • Framework Methods

Interoperability services layer methods

The interoperability services layer methods are included in the following namespaces:

  • Neo.SmartContract.Framework.Services.NEO

    The Neo namespace is the API provided by the NEO blockchain, providing a way to access the blockchain data and manipulate the persistent store.

    ClassDescription
    Account Represents the Account, providing a method to query the balance.
    Asset Represents an asset and its data structure.
    Block Represents a block. It provides methods to query transactions in the block.
    Blockchain Provides a set of methods for accessing blockchain data.
    Contract Represents a contract.
    Header Represents the data structure of a block header
    InvocationTransaction Represents the transaction of contract invocation
    Iterator Represents the enumerator
    Runtime Provides a set of methods for running smart contracts.
    Storage Provides a set of methods to insert, query, or delete data of a persistent store
    StorageContext Represents storage context of the persistent store
    StorageMap Represents the Map data structure
    Transaction The base class representing the transaction
    TransactionAttribute The data structure representing the transaction attributes
    TransactionInput The data structure representing the transaction inputs
    TransactionOutput The data structure representing the transaction outputs
    EnumerationDescription
    ContractPropertyState Represents the state of the smart contract property
    TriggerType Represents the trigger conditions of smart contracts
  • Neo.SmartContract.Framework.Services.System

    The System namespace is the API provided by the Smart Contract Execution Engine, providing access to the execution environment that accesses the smart contract.

    ClassDescription
    ExecutionEngine Represents the execution engine of the virtual machine, allowing access to the caller of the contract and the execution container.

Framework methods

In addition to calling methods from the Interoperability service layer, smart contracts can also call methods provided by the framework. These methods are found within Neo.SmartContract.Framework .

SmartContract class methods

By inheriting the SmartContract class you can use a number of hash algorithms and signature methods it provides.

NameDescription
Sha1(byte[])Hashes the input bytes using SHA1
Sha256(byte[])Hashes the input bytes using SHA256
Hash160(byte[])Hashes the input bytes using SHA256, followed by RIPEMD160
Hash256(byte[])Hashes the input bytes twice using SHA256
VerifySignature(byte[] signature, byte[] pubkey)Verifies the signature using the given pubkey
VerifySignature(byte[] message, byte[] signature, byte[] pubkey);Verifies the signature
VerifySignatures(byte signature, byte pubkey);Verifies the signatures

Helper extension methods

This table lists a set of extension methods provided by the Helper class in Neo smart contract framwork.

MethodsDescription
Conversion between different data types
byte[] AsByteArray(this source)Source data => byte[]:
byte, byte[], sbyte, sbyte[], BigInteger, string,
byte[] HexToBytes(this string hex)Hex string => byte[]
BigInteger AsBigInteger(this byte[] source)byte[] => BigInteger
BigInteger ToBigInteger(this source)byte[] => BigInteger
string => BigInteger
string AsString(this byte[] source)byte[] => string
byte ToByte(this source)BigInteger => byte
int => byte
byte[] ToScriptHash(this string address)Account address => ScriptHash
Byte array related
byte[] Concat(this byte[] first, byte[] second)Concatenate 2 byte arrays
byte[] Range(this byte[] source, int index, int count)Returns a portion of the byte array, params: index, count
byte[] Take(this byte[] source, int count)Returns the left-most X bytes from the byte array,params: count
byte[] Last(this byte[] source, int count)Returns the right-most X bytes from the byte array,params: count
byte[] Reverse(this byte[] source)Reverses the byte array
Serialization and Deserialization
byte[] Serialize(this object source)Converts the object into a byte array
object Deserialize(this byte[] source)Converts an byte array into an object