DataBind Salesforce Marketing Data to the DevExpress Data Grid

The ADO.NET Provider for Salesforce Marketing by CData incorporates conventional ADO.NET data access components compatible with third-party controls. You can adhere to the standard ADO.NET data binding procedures to establish two-way access to real-time data through UI controls. This article will demonstrate the utilization of CData components for data binding with DevExpress UI Controls (Windows Forms and Web controls), specifically binding to a chart that visualizes live data.

Authenticating to the Salesforce Marketing Cloud APIs

Set the and to your login credentials, or to the credentials for a sandbox user if you are connecting to a sandbox account.

Connecting to the Salesforce Marketing Cloud APIs

By default, the data provider connects to production environments. Set to true to use a Salesforce Marketing Cloud sandbox account.

The default Instance is s7 of the Web Services API; however, if you use a different instance, you can set .

Windows Forms Controls

The code below shows how to populate a DevExpress chart with Salesforce Marketing data. The SFMarketingCloudDataAdapter binds to the Series property of the chart control. The Diagram property of the control defines the x- and y-axes as the column names.

using (SFMarketingCloudConnection connection = new SFMarketingCloudConnection(
"User=myUser;Password=myPassword;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;")) {
 SFMarketingCloudDataAdapter dataAdapter = new SFMarketingCloudDataAdapter(
 "SELECT Id, Status FROM Subscriber", connection);
 
 DataTable table = new DataTable();
 dataAdapter.Fill(table);
 DevExpress.XtraCharts.Series series = new DevExpress.XtraCharts.Series();
 chartControl1.Series.Add(series);
 series.DataSource = table;
 series.ValueDataMembers.AddRange(new string[] { "Status" });
 series.ArgumentScaleType = DevExpress.XtraCharts.ScaleType.Qualitative;
 series.ArgumentDataMember = "Id";
 series.ValueScaleType = DevExpress.XtraCharts.ScaleType.Numerical;
 chartControl1.Legend.Visibility = DevExpress.Utils.DefaultBoolean.False;
 ((DevExpress.XtraCharts.SideBySideBarSeriesView)series.View).ColorEach = true; 
}

Web Controls

The code below shows how to populate a DevExpress Web control with Salesforce Marketing data. The SFMarketingCloudDataAdapter binds to the Series property of the chart; the Diagram property defines the x- and y-axes as the column names.

using DevExpress.XtraCharts;

using (SFMarketingCloudConnection connection = new SFMarketingCloudConnection(
"User=myUser;Password=myPassword;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;"))
{
 SFMarketingCloudDataAdapter SFMarketingCloudDataAdapter1 = new SFMarketingCloudDataAdapter("SELECT Id, Status FROM Subscriber", connection);
 DataTable table = new DataTable();
 SFMarketingCloudDataAdapter1.Fill(table);
 DevExpress.XtraCharts.Series series = new Series("Series1", ViewType.Bar);
 WebChartControl1.Series.Add(series);
 series.DataSource = table;
 series.ValueDataMembers.AddRange(new string[] { "Status" });
 series.ArgumentScaleType = ScaleType.Qualitative;
 series.ArgumentDataMember = "Id";
 series.ValueScaleType = ScaleType.Numerical;
 ((DevExpress.XtraCharts.SideBySideBarSeriesView)series.View).ColorEach = true;
}