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 work with Salesforce Marketing Cloud data in your.NET applications, integrate Salesforce Marketing Cloud services with widely used data-oriented technologies, and effortlessly build data access layer for your projects. dotConnect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud makes it simple to create.NET applications, working with Salesforce Marketing Cloud data. It offers standard ADO.NET classes, such as ExactTargetConnection, ExactTargetCommand, ExactTargetDataAdapter, ExactTargetDataReader, ExactTargetParameter, etc., 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 Salesforce Marketing Cloud data with less efforts and less code writing.

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 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. Simple queries are directly compiled to Salesforce Marketing Cloud calls and executed by Salesforce Marketing Cloud service, while more complex queries are split in parts. Parts of a query are executed against Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and returned data is processed by our local SQL engine, which applies advanced SQL features to it.

Entity Framework Support

dotConnect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows you to work with Salesforce Marketing Cloud data via Entity Framework - Microsoft's recommended data access technology. It supports Entity Framework v4, v5, and v6, 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.