LINQ to Snapchat Ads Data

This article illustrates using LINQ to access tables within the Snapchat Ads via the CData ADO.NET Data Provider for Snapchat Ads. 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 Snapchat Ads Data Source".

4. Enter your data source connection information.

   Create an OAuth application to connect to Snapchat Ads. See the online Help documentation for an authentication guide.

   Additionally, you can optionally set AccountId to provide a default Account ID (meaning it won't need to be manually provided in the WHERE clause). If the AccountId is not specified, the first account in the Accounts view is used.

   Below is a typical connection string:

   InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;

👁 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 SnapchatAdsEntities 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 , update, delete, and insert commands. For example:

SnapchatAdsEntities context = new SnapchatAdsEntities();

var campaignsQuery = from campaigns in context.Campaigns
 select campaigns;

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

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