Connecting from Code

The CData ADO.NET Provider for Sage 50 UK implements a standard DbConnection object in Sage50UKConnection. You can also use the Sage50UKConnectionStringBuilder to programmatically build, parse, and rebuild connection strings.

Creating Connection Objects

See Establishing a Connection for guides to defining the connection string and authenticating. Below is a typical invocation to create Sage50UKConnection objects.

using (Sage50UKConnection connection =   
  new Sage50UKConnection("URL=http://localhost:5493/sdata/accounts50/GCRM/{C4C863BE-B098-4A7D-A78B-D7A92B8ADB59};User=Manager;Password=xxxxxx;"))  
{  
  connection.Open();  
}

VB.NET

Using connection As New Sage50UKConnection("URL=http://localhost:5493/sdata/accounts50/GCRM/{C4C863BE-B098-4A7D-A78B-D7A92B8ADB59};User=Manager;Password=xxxxxx;")
  connection.Open
End Using

Using Sage50UKConnectionStringBuilder

The following code example shows how to use an ADO.NET connection string builder to parse a connection string.

Sage50UKConnectionStringBuilder builder =
  new Sage50UKConnectionStringBuilder("URL=http://localhost:5493/sdata/accounts50/GCRM/{C4C863BE-B098-4A7D-A78B-D7A92B8ADB59};User=Manager;Password=xxxxxx;");
  //Pass the connection string builder an existing connection string, and you can get and set any of the elements as strongly typed properties.
  builder.ConnectionString = "URL=http://localhost:5493/sdata/accounts50/GCRM/{C4C863BE-B098-4A7D-A78B-D7A92B8ADB59};User=Manager;Password=xxxxxx;";
  //Now that the connection string has been parsed,
  // you can work with individual items:
  builder.MyString = "new property";
  builder.MyBoolean = true;

  // You can refer to connection keys using strings, 
  // as well. 
  builder["Logfile"] = "test.log";
  builder["Verbosity"] = 5;

VB.NET

Dim builder As Sage50UKConnectionStringBuilder = New Sage50UKConnectionStringBuilder("URL=http://localhost:5493/sdata/accounts50/GCRM/{C4C863BE-B098-4A7D-A78B-D7A92B8ADB59};User=Manager;Password=xxxxxx;")
'Pass the connection string builder an existing connection string, and you can get and set any of the elements using strongly typed properties.
builder.ConnectionString = URL=http://localhost:5493/sdata/accounts50/GCRM/{C4C863BE-B098-4A7D-A78B-D7A92B8ADB59};User=Manager;Password=xxxxxx;"
'Now that the connection string has been parsed,
' you can work with individual items:
builder.MyString = "new property"
builder.MyBoolean = True
  
' You can refer to connection keys using strings, 
' as well. 
builder("Logfile") = "test.log"
builder("Verbosity") = 5