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An easy-to-use database-like interface for .NET applications access to live DoubleClick Campaign Manager data (Ads, Accounts, Creatives, Orders, and more).

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LINQ to Google Campaign Manager Data


LINQ offers versatile querying capabilities within the .NET Framework (v3.0+), offering a straightforward method for programmatic data access through CData ADO.NET Data Providers. In this article, we demonstrate the use of LINQ to retrieve information from the Google Campaign Manager Data Provider.

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

  4. Enter your data source connection information.

    Google Campaign Manager uses the OAuth authentication standard. The data provider facilitates OAuth in various ways as described below. The following OAuth flow requires the authenticating user to interact with DoubleClick Campaign Manager, using the browser. You can also use a service account to authenticate.

    For authentication guides, see the Getting Started section of the data provider help documentation.

    Below is a typical connection string:

    UserProfileID=MyUserProfileID;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH
  5. If saving your entity connection to App.Config, set an entity name. In this example we are setting GoogleCMEntities 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:

GoogleCMEntities context = new GoogleCMEntities(); var campaignperformanceQuery = from campaignperformance in context.CampaignPerformance select campaignperformance; foreach (var result in campaignperformanceQuery) { Console.WriteLine("{0} {1} ", result.Id, result.Clicks); }

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