LINQ to Authorize.Net Data

This article illustrates using LINQ to access tables within the Authorize.Net via the CData ADO.NET Data Provider for Authorize.Net. To achieve this, we will use LINQ to Entity Framework, which facilitates the generation of connections and can be seamlessly employed with any CData ADO.NET Data Providers to access data through LINQ.

See the help documentation for a guide to setting up an EF 6 project to use the provider.

1. In a new project in Visual Studio, right-click on the project and choose to add a new item. Add an ADO.NET Entity Data Model.
2. Choose EF Designer from Database and click Next.
3. Add a new Data Connection, and change your data source type to "CData Authorize.Net Data Source".

4. Enter your data source connection information.

   You can obtain the necessary connection properties on the Security Settings -> General Settings page after logging into your Merchant Account.

   • UseSandbox: The Authorize.Net API to be used to process transactions. If you are using a production account, this property can be left blank. If you are using a developer test account, set this to 'TRUE'.
   • LoginID: The API login Id associated with your payment gateway account. This property is used to authenticate that you are authorized to submit website transactions. Note that this value is not the same as the login Id that you use to log in to the Merchant Interface.
   • TransactionKey: The transaction key associated with your payment gateway account. This property is used to authenticate that you are authorized to submit website transactions.

   Below is a typical connection string:

   LoginId=MyLoginId;TransactionKey=MyTransactionKey;

👁 Required connection properties for the data source. (QuickBooks is shown.)

5. If saving your entity connection to App.Config, set an entity name. In this example we are setting AuthorizeNetEntities as our entity connection in App.Config.
6. Enter a model name and select any tables or views you would like to include in the model.

Using the entity you created, you can now perform select commands. For example:

AuthorizeNetEntities context = new AuthorizeNetEntities();

var settledbatchlistQuery = from settledbatchlist in context.SettledBatchList
 select settledbatchlist;

foreach (var result in settledbatchlistQuery) {
 Console.WriteLine("{0} {1} ", result.Id, result.MarketType);
}

See "LINQ and Entity Framework" chapter in the help documentation for example queries of the supported LINQ.