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Data Type Mapping

The table below contains type mapping rules that are used to map Salesforce.com or Database.com field types to .NET types.

Salesforce Native Data Type

Provider Data Type

.NET Data Type

ANYTYPE STRING String
AUTONUMBER STRING String
BINARY BINARY Byte[]
CHECKBOX BOOLEAN Boolean
COMBOBOX STRING String
CURRENCY DOUBLE Double
DATE DATE DateTime
DATETIME DATETIME DateTime
EMAIL STRING String
HTML STRING String
ID STRING String
INT INT Int32
LONGTEXTAREA STRING String
MULTISELECTPICKLIST STRING String
NUMBER DOUBLE Double
PERCENT DOUBLE Double
PHONE STRING String
PICKLIST STRING String
REFERENCE STRING String
TEXT STRING String
TEXTAREA STRING String
TIME TIME DateTime
URL STRING String