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⇱ Working with NetSuite Data in LINQPad

Working with NetSuite Data in LINQPad

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Execute LINQ queries to NetSuite data in LINQPad.

The CData ADO.NET Provider for NetSuite enables you to use standard ADO.NET interfaces like LINQ and the Entity Framework to work with NetSuite data. This article will demonstrate the process of establishing a connection from LINQPad and executing LINQ queries.

About NetSuite Data Integration

CData provides the easiest way to access and integrate live data from Oracle NetSuite. Customers use CData connectivity to:

  • Access all editions of NetSuite, including Standard, CRM, and OneWorld.
  • Connect with all versions of the SuiteTalk API (SOAP-based) and SuiteQL, which functions like SQL, enabling easier data querying and manipulation.
  • Access predefined and custom reports through support for Saved Searches.
  • Securely authenticate with Token-based and OAuth 2.0, ensuring compatibility and security for all use cases.
  • Use SQL stored procedures to perform functional actions like uploading or downloading files, attaching or detaching records or relationships, retrieving roles, getting extra table or column info, getting job results, and more.

Customers use CData solutions to access live NetSuite data from their preferred analytics tools, Power BI and Excel. They also use CData's solutions to integrate their NetSuite data into comprehensive databases and data warehouse using CData Sync directly or leveraging CData's compatibility with other applications like Azure Data Factory. CData also helps Oracle NetSuite customers easily write apps that can pull data from and push data to NetSuite, allowing organizations to integrate data from other sources with NetSuite.

For more information about our Oracle NetSuite solutions, read our blog: Drivers in Focus Part 2: Replicating and Consolidating ... NetSuite Accounting Data.


Getting Started


Create the Data Model

After downloading and installing both the provider and LINQPad, create a new class library project within Visual Studio.

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

  1. Right-click your project and click Add -> New Item -> ADO.NET Entity Data Model. In the resulting dialog, select Code First from database. Click New Connection and specify the connection string options in the resulting wizard.

    The User and Password properties, under the Authentication section, must be set to valid NetSuite user credentials. In addition, the AccountId must be set to the ID of a company account that can be used by the specified User. The RoleId can be optionally specified to log in the user with limited permissions.

    See the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation for more information on connecting to NetSuite.

    Below is a typical connection string: 

    Account Id=XABC123456;Password=password;User=user;Role Id=3;Version=2013_1;
    👁 The required connection properties in the Entity Data Model Configuration Wizard. (JSON is shown.)

  2. Select the desired tables and views and click Finish to create the data model.

    👁 The last step of the Entity Data Model Configuration Wizard, where tables are imported into the entity model.
  3. Build the project. The generated files can be used to create the NetSuite connection in LINQPad.

Connect to NetSuite Data in LINQPad

After you have obtained the required connection properties and created the data model assembly, follow the steps below to start using the data model in LINQPad.

  1. Open LINQPad and click Add Connection.

  2. Select the "Use a typed data context from your own assembly" option.

  3. Select Entity Framework DbContext.

    👁 The Choose Data Context dialog.

  4. Click Browse next to the Path to Custom Assembly box and browse to your project folder. Browse to the .dll or .exe under the bin folder.

  5. Select the name of the DbContext.
  6. If you saved your connection string in App.Config, specify the path to the App.config.
👁 The next step of the wizard, where the data model assembly is imported.

You can now query NetSuite data through LINQPad. For examples of the supported LINQ queries, see the "LINQ and Entity Framework" chapter in the help documentation.

👁 The results of a query in LINQPad. (JSON is shown.)

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