How to start an Amazon EC2 instance programmatically in .NET

Question

I have been attempting to start an instance of EC2 in C# without luck.

When passing in an instance id to start the instance I get an error that the instance cannot b

Answer 1

try this.

var startRequest = new StartInstancesRequest
                    {
                        InstanceIds = new List() { instanceId }
                    };
                bool isError = true;
                StartInstancesResponse startInstancesResponse = null;
                while (isError)
                {
                    try
                    {
                        startInstancesResponse=amazonEc2client.StartInstances(startRequest);
                        isError = false;
                    }
                    catch (Exception ex)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine(ex.Message + "\n" + ex.StackTrace);
                        isError = true;
                    }
                }