Acerca de dotConnect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Proveedor de ADO.NET para Salesforce Marketing Cloud con compatibilidad con Entity Framework.

dotConnect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud is an ADO.NET provider for working with Salesforce Marketing Cloud (formerly, ExactTarget) data through the standard ADO.NET or Entity Framework interfaces. It allows you to easily integrate Salesforce Marketing Cloud data into your .NET applications, and integrate Salesforce Marketing Cloud services with widely used data-oriented technologies.

Work with Salesforce Marketing Cloud Data Easily - dotConnect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud makes it simple to create .NET applications, working with Salesforce Marketing Cloud data. It offers standard ADO.NET interface, and thus it's easy to master it. It's powerful design-time editors together with seamless Visual Studio integration allow you to work with data with less efforts and less code writing.

Connecting to Salesforce Marketing Cloud from Server Explorer

  • Click Connect to Database on the Server Explorer toolbar.
  • Change Data Source to Salesforce Marketing Cloud Data Source.
  • Specify the login url to the data source, your Salesforce Marketing Cloud user id and password.

That's all, now you can work with data right in Visual Studio - select data from Salesforce Marketing Cloud entities and edit it.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Data Binding

  • Build your data access layer without writing code manually.
  • Configure dotConnect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud components in powerful design-time editors.
  • Bind data grids and other controls to Salesforce Marketing Cloud data just by configuring the smart tags.
  • Work with Salesforce Marketing Cloud data just like with a database.

dotConnect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows you to perform SQL queries against your Salesforce Marketing Cloud data. Use SQL statements to work with Salesforce Marketing Cloud accounts, contacts, leads, contracts, products, campaigns opportunities, and other objects. The provider offers full CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) support and allows you to get data with SELECT statements and manage data with INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements. No need to study and use complex Salesforce Marketing Cloud API, just use familiar SQL statements. You may use complex JOINs, WHERE conditions, etc. - all the SQL benefits, not available with Salesforce Marketing Cloud API.

Entity Framework Support - dotConnect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows you to access data via Entity Framework - Microsoft's recommended data access technology. It enables you to use the following Entity Framework features with Salesforce Marketing Cloud data:
LINQ to Entities (no need for Salesforce Marketing Cloud API).
Entity relations with lazy/eager loading.
No need to post each edited/created object separately - a single SaveChanges() call to persist all the changed objects.

dotConnect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud provides enhanced Entity Framework support for data with a bundled visual designer for ORM models with Visual Studio integration - Entity Developer. Standard Visual Studio Entity Data Model designer is also supported.