dotConnect for BigCommerce

Connect BigCommerce Data With .NET Application Easily

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

dotConnect for BigCommerce has the same standard ADO.NET classes as other standard ADO.NET providers: BigcommerceConnection, BigcommerceCommand, BigcommerceDataAdapter, BigcommerceDataReader, BigcommerceParameter, etc. This allows you quickly get started with it and eliminates the need to study any BigCommerce data access specificities.

dotConnect for BigCommerce makes it simple to create .NET applications in C#, VB, or other languages, working with BigCommerce data. It's powerful design-time editors together with seamless Visual Studio integration allow you to work with BigCommerce data with less efforts and less code writing. See how easy it is with dotConnect for BigCommerce.

Features

Access live BigCommerce store data
Perform aggregations & JOINs for data analysis
Encrypted connections protect your data
Improves performance by processing queries locally
Simplifies data access with Entity Framework integration
Design EF models visually in your IDE
Streamlines development with design-time features
Simplifies data access and manipulation in Visual Studio

Compatibility

The following table show which version of this package to use with which version of frameworks.

Frameworks	Version support
Entity Framework Core	8, 7, 6, 5, 3, 2, 1
.NET	8, 7, 6, 5
.NET Core	3, 2, 1
.NET Framework	4.8, 4.7, 4.6, 4.5

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Usage

To establish a connection to server you have to provide the required connection parameters to dotConnect for BigCommerce. This information is used by BigCommerceConnection component to connect to BigCommerce. The parameters are represented as a connection string. You can compose the connection string manually or have dotConnect for BigCommerce construct it for you.

The following connection string parameters are required:

Host - The API Path - the path where all XML requests to BigCommerce should be sent

User Id - The user name to login with

Authentication Token - An automatically generated key that is used for connecting to BigCommerce

To get the Host, User Id, and Authentication Token parameters, sign in to BigCommerce in the browser, point to the Settings link in the bottom left corner of the page, and then in the Advanced Settings column click the Legacy API Settings link. After this, you can find all the necessary parameters in the opened Legacy API Account Details. Username corresponds to the User Id parameter, API Path - to the Host parameter, and API Token - to the Authentication Token parameter.

This snippet directly configures a BigCommerce connection using a connection string.

bigcommerceConnection.ConnectionString = "Server=https://bigcommerce-store.mybigcommerce.com/api/v2/;User Id=User;Authentication Token=qweASDzcx1234567890rtyuiqweASDzcx1234567;";

Creating Connection in Server Explorer

To create a Server Explorer connection, you just need to:

Click Connect to Database on the Server Explorer toolbar
If the BigCommerce Data Source is not selected by default, click the Change button.
Select BigCommerce Data Source (dotConnect for BigCommerce) and click OK.
Specify the BigCommerce API Path, your user id and authentication token.

Power of SQL

dotConnect for BigCommerce allows you to perform SQL queries against your BigCommerce data. Use SQL statements to work with BigCommerce accounts, contacts, leads, contracts, products, campaigns opportunities, and other objects.

Our provider offers full CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) support and allows you to get BigCommerce data with SELECT statements and manage data with INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.

No need to study and use complex BigCommerce API, just use familiar SQL statements. You may use complex JOINs, WHERE conditions, etc. - all the SQL benefits, not available with BigCommerce API.

Entity Framework Support

dotConnect for BigCommerce allows you to access Bigcommerce data via Entity Framework - Microsoft's recommended data access technology. It supports Entity Framework and Entity Framework Core, and enables you to use the following Entity Framework features with BigCommerce data:

LINQ to Entities (no need for Bigcommerce 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 BigCommerce provides enhanced Entity Framework support for BigCommerce 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.

Bigcommerce Data Binding

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

License

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Trial Limitations

The dotConnect for BigCommerce Evaluation License lets you try dotConnect for BigCommerce Trial Edition for a period of 30 days. You may not use applications developed using trial versions of the software for any commercial purposes.

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