Chapter 9. Application Programming Interface

In addition to the Master Data Manager web application discussed so far, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 MDS provides an Application Programming Interface (API) that can perform all functions that the Master Data Manager can, while adding some additional functionality that is only available through the API. To use the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 MDS API you must be comfortable developing software using Microsoft Visual Studio. The code examples within this chapter are written in C#, using Visual Studio 2010.

The example solution worked through in previous chapters will be extended further to cover read and write integration with SharePoint 2010 workflow. We will also look at creating a small SharePoint 2010 web part, using the API to display entity data.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Introduction to the MDS API

• Getting started with Web Service API

• MDS assemblies

• Creating a simple Microsoft SharePoint Web Part

• Microsoft SharePoint...