dotConnect for Adobe Commerce is an ADO.NET provider for working with Magento data through the standard ADO.NET or Entity Framework interfaces. It allows you to easily work with Adobe Commerce data in your.NET applications, integrate Adobe Commerce services with widely used data-oriented technologies, and effortlessly build data access layer for your projects.dotConnect for Adobe Commerce makes it simple to create.NET applications, working with Adobe Commerce data. It offers standard ADO.NET classes, such as MagentoConnection, MagentoCommand, MagentoDataAdapter, MagentoDataReader, MagentoParameter, 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 Adobe Commerce data with less efforts and less code writing.
Power of SQL
dotConnect for Adobe Commerce allows you to perform SQL queries against your Adobe Commerce data. Use SQL statements to work with Adobe Commerce 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 Adobe Commerce data with SELECT statements and manage data with INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.No need to study and use complex Adobe Commerce API, just use familiar SQL statements. You may use complex JOINs, WHERE conditions, etc. - all the SQL benefits, not available with Adobe Commerce API.Simple queries are directly compiled to Magento calls and executed by Adobe Commerce service, while more complex queries are split in parts. Parts of a query are executed against Magento, and returned data is processed by our local SQL engine, which applies advanced SQL features to it.
Entity Framework Support
dotConnect for Adobe Commerce allows you to work with Adobe Commerce 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 Adobe Commerce data:
- LINQ to Entities (no need for Adobe Commerce 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 Adobe Commerce provides enhanced Entity Framework support for Adobe Commerce 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.
