Accessing Salesforce Webservice API using C?

If you follow the directions in Binz' answer, you should be able to add a web service reference using Visual Studio The "Salesforce Dotnet API package" on the wiki site is not required to access the SalesForce API, it's just a library that tries to abstract it As far as gotchas and other things to know, I would recommend that you read chapter 6 of the Force. Com Cookbook You have to sign up for a force. Com developer account (free).

Most of the things you'll need to be aware of are covered in this chapter. Here are a few of them: logging in / logging out - session management query / queryMore pattern (needed if you're going to pull large sets of data from SalesForce) how to construct a wrapper class - there is some sample vb. Net code you can download as well One other thing to note, if you're going to use SOQL to query your SalesForce data, and you need to filter on a SalesForce date field, you'll need to format the date string.

Here's one way to do it: public static string FormatDateForQuery(DateTime dateToFormat, bool includeTime) { if (includeTime) { return dateToFormat.ToUniversalTime(). ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss+00:00"); } else { return dateToFormat.ToUniversalTime(). ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"); } }.

If you follow the directions in Binz' answer, you should be able to add a web service reference using Visual Studio. The "Salesforce Dotnet API package" on the wiki site is not required to access the SalesForce API, it's just a library that tries to abstract it. As far as gotchas and other things to know, I would recommend that you read chapter 6 of the Force.Com Cookbook.

You have to sign up for a force. Com developer account (free). Most of the things you'll need to be aware of are covered in this chapter.

Here are a few of them: logging in / logging out - session management query / queryMore pattern (needed if you're going to pull large sets of data from SalesForce) how to construct a wrapper class - there is some sample vb. Net code you can download as well One other thing to note, if you're going to use SOQL to query your SalesForce data, and you need to filter on a SalesForce date field, you'll need to format the date string. Here's one way to do it: public static string FormatDateForQuery(DateTime dateToFormat, bool includeTime) { if (includeTime) { return dateToFormat.ToUniversalTime().

ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss+00:00"); } else { return dateToFormat.ToUniversalTime(). ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"); } }.

I did not know about the cookbook - thanks! It contains many useful information and a good step by step introduction. – Max Oct 8 '09 at 8:32.

For Visual Studio 2008 you need to select 'Add Service Reference', then click the 'Advanced' button on the bottom left of the dialogue. There should then be a button on the bottom of that dialogue that says 'Add Web Reference'. You should be able to then select your wsdl file and a service client proxy will be auto genned for you by VS.

There is a parsing issue when using . NET 2.0 with date time fields in salesforce, accessing through web services. It seems to be a bug in .

NET but there's another way to address it by manually editing the wsdl. More information here: community.salesforce.com/t5/NET-Developm....

I found below two articles on creating and consuming the salesforce webservice with C#. Net application. Consume standard salesforce "Enterprise wsdl" in C# application.

shivasoft.in/blog/webtech/salesforce/con... Create a web service in salesforce and consume it in C# application. shivasoft.in/blog/webtech/salesforce/cre....

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