dotConnect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Connect Salesforce Marketing Cloud Data With .NET Application Easily

dotConnect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud is an ADO.NET provider for working with Salesforce Marketing Cloud 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.

dotConnect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud has the same standard ADO.NET classes as other standard ADO.NET providers: Salesforce Marketing CloudConnection, Salesforce Marketing CloudCommand, Salesforce Marketing CloudDataAdapter, Salesforce Marketing CloudDataReader, Salesforce Marketing CloudParameter, etc. This allows you quickly get started with it and eliminates the need to study any Salesforce Marketing Cloud data access specificities.

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

Features

• Access live Salesforce Marketing Cloud 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.

More information here

Usage

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

The following connection string parameters are required:

Authentication Type - determines the authentication method used - RefreshToken, UserNamePassword, ServerToServer, or AppCenterClient.

Client Id - your client ID from the App Center. Required for RefreshToken, ServerToServer, and AppCenterClient authentication.

Client Secret - your client Secret from the App Center. Required for RefreshToken, ServerToServer, and AppCenterClient authentication.

Refresh Token - an OAuth refresh token to connect to Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Required for RefreshToken authentication.

Subdomain - your tenant-specific subdomain of Marketing Cloud API endpoints. Required for RefreshToken and ServerToServer authentication.

Host - URL of an ExactTarget instance for API UserNamePassword authentication. By default the S1 Instance address is used: https://webservice.exacttarget.com/Service.asmx . Required for UserNamePassword authentication.

User Id - API User name to login using UserNamePassword authentication.

Password - The password for UserNamePassword authentication.

This snippet directly configures a Salesforce Marketing Cloud connection using a connection string.

exactTargetConnection.ConnectionString = "user=MyCompanyAdmin;password=mypassword;url=https://webservice.s7.exacttarget.com/Service.asmx;";

Read the full documentation for connection here.

Creating Connection in Server Explorer

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

1. Click Connect to Database on the Server Explorer toolbar 2. If the Salesforce Marketing Cloud Data Source is not selected by default, click the Change button. 3. Select Salesforce Marketing Cloud Data Source (dotConnect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud) and click OK. 4. Specify the Salesforce Marketing Cloud API Path, your user id and authentication token.

Power of SQL

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.

Our provider offers full CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) support and allows you to get Salesforce Marketing Cloud 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 Salesforce Marketing Cloud 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 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 Salesforce Marketing Cloud 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.

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

License

See pricing options for ordering.

Trial Limitations

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

Support Area

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