Open the solution file BrowserStack/BrowserStack.sln in Visual Studio. The projects are Visual Studio 2015 compatible. You will need to resolve the references from the Solution Explorer. Visual Studio with automatically download the references from NuGet.

• new Local(): creates an instance of Local

• start(options): starts Local instance with options. The options available are detailed below.
• stop(): stops the Local instance
• isRunning(): checks if Local instance is running and returns a corresponding boolean value

• key: BrowserStack Access Key
• v: Provides verbose logging
• f: If you want to test local folder rather internal server, provide path to folder as value of this option
• force: Kill other running Browserstack Local
• only: Restricts Local Testing access to specified local servers and/or folders
• forcelocal: Route all traffic via local machine
• onlyAutomate: Disable Live Testing and Screenshots, just test Automate
• proxyHost: Hostname/IP of proxy, remaining proxy options are ignored if this option is absent
• proxyPort: Port for the proxy, defaults to 3128 when -proxyHost is used
• proxyUser: Username for connecting to proxy (Basic Auth Only)
• proxyPass: Password for USERNAME, will be ignored if USERNAME is empty or not specified
• localIdentifier: If doing simultaneous multiple local testing connections, set this uniquely for different processes
• hosts: List of hosts and ports where Local must be enabled for eg. localhost,3000,1,localhost,3001,0
• logfile: Path to file where Local logs be saved to
• binarypath: Optional path to Local binary

To run the example,

• open the solution file BrowserStackExample/BrowserStackExample.sln
• resolve the references (Will need to resolve the reference to BrowserStack.dll [built from the main project])
• change the BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME and BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY string variables to your BrowserStack username and key mentioned here