VB.Net Library for Amazon SimpleDB

About this Library

• Based on the 2009-04-15 API version.

What's New?

• 2009-05-20: Deprecate Query and QueryWithAttributes. Please migrate to Select API
• 2009-03-23:Support for BatchPutAttributes, bug fix for url encoding in NextToken
• 2008-12-17: Support for signature version 2, DomainMetadata and Select API, https endpoint
• 2008-08-28: Support for new API - QueryWithAttributes
• 2008-01-18: Fixed UTF8 encoding

Prerequisites

• Amazon SimpleDB Account (http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/).
• Visual Studio 2005, .NET 2.0

Package Content

Quick Start

• Amazon.SimpleDB.vbproj - main library project
• Amazon.SimpleDB.Samples.vbproj - library samples project

1. Extract the amazon-simpledb-2009-04-15-vbnet-library.zip file into a working directory.
2. Open Amazon.SimpleDB.sln solution file in Visual Studio 2005
3. Hit F5 key and follow on screen instruction

Running Samples

• Open AmazonSimpleDBSamples.vb file under Amazon.SimpleDB.Samples project
• Set AWS Access Key ID and AWS Secret Access Key

Dim accessKeyId As String = "<Your Access Key ID>"
Dim secretAccessKey As String = "<Your Secret Access Key>"
            

• Set request parameters. For example, find following pre-generated snippet:

// Dim  request As New CreateDomainRequest()
// @TODO: set request parameters here
// CreateDomainSample.InvokeCreateDomain(service, request)
            

• Uncomment first and third line and set DomainName:

Dim  request As New CreateDomainRequest()
request.DomainName = "MyDomain"
CreateDomainSample.InvokeCreateDomain(service, request)

            



• Hit F5 to run sample. You should see the output similar to the following:




    CreateDomainResponse
        ResponseMetadata
            RequestId
                95cdcb68-f46c-400b-8265-8c2de2a5c475

            




• Experiment with other samples, examine samples sources. When ready, add library project to your solution, and use it.

Making Requests to a Different Region

To make the service call to a different region, instantiate the client with the configuration object, and pass the region-specific endpoint. For example:

Dim service As New AmazonSimpleDBClient(accessKeyId, secretAccessKey, 
    New AmazonSimpleDBConfig().WithServiceURL("https://sdb.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com"))

See the Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide for a complete list of region endpoints.

Previous Version Download

• 2007-11-07

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