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โ‡ฑ Rapidly Develop SurveyMonkey-Driven Apps with Active Query Builder


Rapidly Develop SurveyMonkey-Driven Apps with Active Query Builder

๐Ÿ‘ Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Leverage the Active Query Builder SQL interface and .NET data access to create data-driven WinForms and ASP.NET apps backed by SurveyMonkey.

Write standard .NET to expose SurveyMonkey data through an SQL interface: Active Query Builder helps developers write SQL interfaces; the CData ODBC Driver for SurveyMonkey enables standards-based access to SurveyMonkey. This integration uses the Microsoft ADO.NET Provider for ODBC as a bridge between the ODBC Driver and the Active Query Builder objects to build a visual SQL composer.

Connect to SurveyMonkey as an ODBC Data Source

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

SurveyMonkey uses the OAuth 2 authentication standard. See the Getting Started section in the help documentation for a guide.

Use SQL to Interact with SurveyMonkey

Follow the steps below to create a WinForms visual query builder.

  1. Open Active Query Builder for .NET WinForms. ๐Ÿ‘ Opening Active Query Builder.
  2. In the new Windows Forms project go to the "File" menu and click "Connect..."
  3. Under Database Connections, click "Add..." ๐Ÿ‘ Adding a new Connection.
  4. Set your desired Connection Name (e.g. CData SurveyMonkey), set Connection Type to "ODBC" and locate your previously configured DSN in the "User/System" DSN dropdown. ๐Ÿ‘ Selecting a previously configured DSN (Amazon Athena is shown).
  5. Click "OK" to save the new connection.
  6. Back in the Database Connection wizard, select the newly created connection and click "OK." ๐Ÿ‘ A newly added Connection (Amazon Athena is shown).
  7. Click "File" > "New Query" to create a QueryBuilder

You can now build queries visually: Double-click a table in the Columns Pane Area and an entity/relationship diagram is displayed in the Query Building Area. Columns that you select in the diagram are added to the query.

๐Ÿ‘ Building queries interactively with Active Query Builder.

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SurveyMonkey ODBC Driver

The SurveyMonkey ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live SurveyMonkey, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access SurveyMonkey like you would a database - read, write, and update Rollups, Surveys, Questions, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.