title: Getting Started with C# .Net Office 365 APIs
body: <p>I fully expect this is really simple, but I am finding myself overwhelmed and buried in excessive information - Can somebody please point me to, or just write a simple getting started with Office 365 APIs in C# / .Net?</p>
  
  <p>A really specific task I'd like to accomplish is to simply open Visual Studio, create some sort of C# project, and programmatically create a Distribution Group in Office365. I would expect, I just go to NuGet, add some Assembly, and be on my way. But I'm having difficulty finding the right thing to do...</p>
  
  <p>I found this article: <a href="http://blogs.office.com/2014/05/12/net-and-javascript-libraries-for-office-365-apis/" rel="nofollow">.NET and JavaScript libraries for Office 365 APIs</a> which suggests I need to install Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio, but when I did that, I got a web installer with simply hundreds of things in it that I could install - and none of them seemed to be the right thing. I <em>may</em> have gotten what I'm looking for by just running that installer and not selecting additional add-ons, but I would never know, because there's nothing suggesting what to do next. Do I need to create a project from a particular template? Go to some new menu under Visual Studio that wasn't there before? Install a NuGet package? I'm lost...</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for pointers.</p>
  
  <p>Side-note: The article I mentioned says to tag stackoverflow questions with <code>Office365APIs</code> but when I try that, stackoverflow says <em>"Creating the new tag Office365APIs requires at least 1500 reputation."</em> So I can't. And apparently nobody ever has before.</p>