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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 WooCommerce Data Provider.
This article illustrates using LINQ to access tables within the WooCommerce via the CData ADO.NET Data Provider for WooCommerce. 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.
- 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.
- Choose EF Designer from Database and click Next.
- Add a new Data Connection, and change your data source type to "CData WooCommerce Data Source".
Enter your data source connection information.
WooCommerce supports the following authentication methods: one-legged OAuth1.0 Authentication and standard OAuth2.0 Authentication.
Connecting using one-legged OAuth 1.0 Authentication
Specify the following properties (NOTE: the below credentials are generated from WooCommerce settings page and should not be confused with the credentials generated by using WordPress OAuth2.0 plugin):
- ConsumerKey
- ConsumerSecret
Connecting using WordPress OAuth 2.0 Authentication
- If saving your entity connection to App.Config, set an entity name. In this example we are setting WooCommerceEntities as our entity connection in App.Config.
- 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:
WooCommerceEntities context = new WooCommerceEntities();
var ordersQuery = from orders in context.Orders
select orders;
foreach (var result in ordersQuery) {
Console.WriteLine("{0} {1} ", result.Id, result.ParentId);
}
See "LINQ and Entity Framework" chapter in the help documentation for example queries of the supported LINQ.