.NET Connector for Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento)

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

dotConnect for Adobe Commerce has the same standard ADO.NET classes as other standard ADO.NET providers: MagentoConnection, MagentoCommand, MagentoDataAdapter, MagentoDataReader, MagentoParameter, etc. This allows you quickly get started with it and eliminates the need to study any Adobe Commerce data access specificities.

Connect Adobe Commerce Data With .NET Application Easily

dotConnect for Adobe Commerce makes it simple to create .NET applications in C#, VB, or other languages, working with Adobe Commerce data. It offers standard ADO.NET interface, 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. See how easy it is with dotConnect for Adobe Commerce.

Connecting to Adobe Commerce 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 Adobe Commerce Data Source
Specify the login url to the data source, your Adobe Commerce user id and password

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

Adobe Commerce connection in Server Explorer

Adobe Commerce Data Binding

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

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.

Entity Framework Support

dotConnect for Adobe Commerce allows you to access Adobe Commerce 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 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.

How it Works

Advanced Queries

Simple Queries

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

Simple queries are directly compiled to Adobe Commerce 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 Adobe Commerce side providing the best performance

Data
Returned data are passed to the application

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

Simple SQL statements are translated to Adobe Commerce API calls and executed on the Adobe Commerce side directly. However, dotConnect for Adobe Commerce 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 Adobe Commerce queries all the data from the objects that participate in the query, and executes the statement locally.