DemoCenter Overview

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dotConnect for Salesforce comes with a Demo Center application. This application demonstrates the main features of dotConnect for Salesforce - execution of SQL statements against Salesforce objects and Information Schema, execution of LINQ to Entities statements (in Professional edition), managing local data cache, etc.

This sample can be launched from the Start Menu. By default, you can call it by selecting Demo Center from the Start Menu -> All Programs -> Devart dotConnect for Salesforce -> Samples.

When it starts, you will see the login page. Enter the login information here and click the Proceed button.

The next page is the Home page. Here you can navigate to other sample pages:

Page	Description
SQL-92 support	This page demonstrates execution of SQL statements against Salesforce objects and against the Information Schema, containing the metadata of your Salesforce account. The page contains several predefined queries, and you can modify them or write your own query and test it. You can enable or disable local query data caching by clicking the Cache ON/Cache OFF button in the top right corner and compare the query execution performance.
Entity Framework	This page demonstrates execution of LINQ to Entities queries against Salesforce objects. The page contains several predefined queries that you can test. This page is available only in dotConnect for Salesforce Professional edition. You can enable or disable local query data caching by clicking the Cache ON/Cache OFF button in the top right corner and compare the query execution performance.
Cache Management	This page demonstrates how to manage local data cache. You can enable or disable caching data for each Salesforce object separately (they can be selected in the list on the left of the page), and then go back to the queries and test their performance again. On this page, caching can be enabled or disabled for each table, and the cache refresh interval can be set.

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Description

SQL-92 support

This page demonstrates execution of SQL statements against Salesforce objects and against the Information Schema, containing the metadata of your Salesforce account. The page contains several predefined queries, and you can modify them or write your own query and test it.

You can enable or disable local query data caching by clicking the Cache ON/Cache OFF button in the top right corner and compare the query execution performance.

Entity Framework

This page demonstrates execution of LINQ to Entities queries against Salesforce objects. The page contains several predefined queries that you can test. This page is available only in dotConnect for Salesforce Professional edition.

You can enable or disable local query data caching by clicking the Cache ON/Cache OFF button in the top right corner and compare the query execution performance.

Cache Management

This page demonstrates how to manage local data cache. You can enable or disable caching data for each Salesforce object separately (they can be selected in the list on the left of the page), and then go back to the queries and test their performance again. On this page, caching can be enabled or disabled for each table, and the cache refresh interval can be set.

On any of the pages you may go back to the home page or login page by clicking the corresponding icon in the top left corner of the page.

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