ADO.NET Provider for Salesforce: Fast Data Integration!

ADO.NET Provider for Salesforce

dotConnect for Salesforce is the best data provider for .NET and Salesforce integration allowing working with Salesforce through the standard ADO.NET or Entity Framework interfaces. With it, you can easily integrate Salesforce data with .NET (C#, VB, etc.) applications, and integrate Salesforce services with widely used data-oriented technologies.

dotConnect for Salesforce has the same standard ADO.NET classes as other standard ADO.NET providers: SalesforceConnection, SalesforceCommand, SalesforceDataAdapter, SalesforceDataReader, SalesforceParameter, etc. This allows you quickly get started with it and eliminates the need to study any Salesforce data access specificities.

Integrate Salesforce Data and .NET interfaces without Complex Salesforce API

In dotConnect for Salesforce, the complexity of Salesforce API and SOQL is wrapped into widely known and easier to use ADO.NET and Entity Framework interfaces. This provides net integration with salesforce, thus allowing .NET developers to immediately access Salesforce data via SQL or LINQ without studying Salesforce specificity. It's powerful design-time editors together with seamless Visual Studio integration allow you to work with Salesforce data with less efforts and less code writing. See how easy it is with dotConnect for Salesforce.

Connecting to Salesforce from Server Explorer

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

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

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

Salesforce connection in Server Explorer

Salesforce Data Binding

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

Get SQL in Salesforce Integration with Single Connector

dotConnect for Salesforce SQL integration allows you to perform SQL queries against your Salesforce data. Use SQL statements in Salesforce environment to work with 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 data with SELECT statements and manage data with INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.

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

Possibility to Use Salesforce with the Entity Framework

dotConnect for Salesforce allows you to access Salesforce data via Entity Framework - Microsoft's recommended data access technology. It supports Entity Framework v4, v5, v6, and Entity Framework Core , and enables you to use the following Entity Framework features with Salesforce data:

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

How SQL Connector for Salesforce Works

Advanced SQL Queries in Salesforce

Simple SQL Query in Salesforce

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More complex queries are split in parts, and parts of query are executed against Salesforce

Simple queries are directly compiled to Salesforce calls

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Our local SQL engine processes the results and applies advanced SQL features, used in the query

These API calls are executed on Salesforce side providing the best performance

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Returned data are passed to the application

dotConnect for Salesforce offers powerful local SQL engine for SELECT statement execution. It executes SQL statements in the following way:

Simple SQL statements are translated to Salesforce API calls and executed on the Salesforce side directly. However, dotConnect for Salesforce also supports more advanced SQL features, such as SQL functions or expressions, complex WHERE conditions, joins, etc.

If you use these more advanced SQL features, dotConnect for Salesforce queries all the data from the objects that participate in the query, and executes the statement locally.

How to Start .NET Integration with Salesforce

dotConnect for Salesforce has a detailed documentation that can help you quickly get started with our product. Read our tutorials first:

Connect

Connecting to Salesforce

This tutorial describes how to connect to Salesforce either at design-time, or from application code at run-time via SalesforceConnection.

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Retrieve

Retrieving Salesforce Data

This tutorial describes how to get Salesforce data with the SalesforceDataAdapter class or with SalesforceCommand and SalesforceDataReader.

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Update

Updating Salesforce Data

This tutorial describes how to manage Salesforce data with SQL and the SalesforceCommand class or with SalesforceDataAdapter.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is dotConnect for Salesforce used for?

dotConnect for Salesforce is an ADO.NET provider for accessing data of the Salesforce.com cloud CRM and Database.com cloud database through the standard ADO.NET or Entity Framework interfaces. It allows you to easily connect your .NET applications to Salesforce data, and integrate Salesforce services with widely used data-oriented technologies. dotConnect for Salesforce offers local SQL engine to query Salesforce data, advanced data caching, query optimization and other enterprise level features.

How to deploy an app written with dotConnect for Salesforce?

To deploy applications written with dotConnect for Salesforce you should register run-time assemblies Devart.Data.Salesforce.dll and Devart.Data.dll at Global Assembly Cache (GAC) for appropriate framework or place them in the folder of your application (Bin folder for web projects). These two assemblies should be available in all applications written with dotConnect for Salesforce. Make sure that your project contains the license resource.

Your application should also have access to the sqlite3.dll library. This library can be located either in the application folder or in a system-wide accessible folder. The bitness (32-bit or 64-bit) of the library must correspond to the bitness of your application.

How to install and configure dotConnect for Salesforce?

Download the dotConnect for Salesforce from the Devart website . The product is provided as a single setup package that contains all required files for Full .NET Framework and documentation. To connect to Salesforce.com or Database.com you need to have the corresponding account, dotConnect for Salesforce installed and IDE running. You have to know your account login, password, and security token.

For creating a Salesforce connection, do the following:

Run the IDE.
Open Toolbox and find SalesforceConnection component in dotConnect for Salesforce category.
Double-click the component. Note that new object appears on the designer underneath the form. If this is first time you create SalesforceConnection in this application, it is named salesforceConnection1.
Click on the salesforceConnection1 object and press F4 to focus on object's properties.
In the Host property provide the Salesforce.com or Database.com login URL.
In the UserId property specify your login. For example, [email protected]
In the Password property specify your password. For example, mypassword.
In the SecurityToken property specify your security token. Security token is an automatically generated key that is used for logging in to Salesforce from an untrusted network. For example, qweASDzcx1234567890rtyui.
Note that as you assign values to these properties the ConnectionString property is automatically updated to reflect your settings. Now it contains something like Host=login.salesforce.com;User Id= [email protected];Password=mypassword;Security Token=qweASDzcx1234567890rtyui;.

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