How to trigger mail in ExactTarget using C# code

ExactTarget is a cloud service provided by Salesforce for running email campaign for email marketing. 

Here is a code to trigger emails in ExactTarget via its web service.

Add reference of https://webservice.s7.exacttarget.com/etframework.wsdl

Change necessary values in below code and call the method. That’s it.

static void TriggerEmail()

{

    SoapClient client = new SoapClient();

    client.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "xyz";

    client.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "xyzpassword";

    //Create a new subscriber - person email id

    Subscriber newSub = new Subscriber();

    newSub.EmailAddress = "abc@test.com";

    newSub.SubscriberKey = "abc@test.com";

    //Create the subscriber attributes

    newSub.Attributes = new ExactTargetClient.Attribute[4];

    //Attribute - First Name

    newSub.Attributes[0] = new ExactTargetClient.Attribute();

    newSub.Attributes[0].Name = "First Name";

    newSub.Attributes[0].Value = "Enter your first Name Here";

    //Attribute - Last Name

    newSub.Attributes[1] = new ExactTargetClient.Attribute();

    newSub.Attributes[1].Name = "Last Name";

    newSub.Attributes[1].Value = "Enter your Last Name Here";

    //Attribute - Zip Code

    newSub.Attributes[2] = new ExactTargetClient.Attribute();

    newSub.Attributes[2].Name = "Zip Code";

    newSub.Attributes[2].Value = "110011";

    //Attribute - State

    newSub.Attributes[3] = new ExactTargetClient.Attribute();

    newSub.Attributes[3].Name = "State";

    newSub.Attributes[3].Value = "Johannesburg";

    //Create a TriggerSend that uses an existing TriggerSendDefinition

    TriggeredSend ts = new TriggeredSend();

    ts.TriggeredSendDefinition = new TriggeredSendDefinition();

    //The external key assigned to the TriggerSendDeinition at ExactTarget

    ts.TriggeredSendDefinition.CustomerKey = "101"; //Keep in config file

    ClientID clientID = new ClientID();

    clientID.ID = 1234567; //Keep in config file

    ts.Client = clientID;

    //Instantiate the CreateOptions object for the create call

    CreateOptions cOptionsTS = new CreateOptions();

    cOptionsTS.RequestType = RequestType.Asynchronous;

    cOptionsTS.RequestTypeSpecified = true;

    ts.Subscribers = new Subscriber[] { newSub };

    try

    {

        //Create the TriggeredSend

        string tsRequestID = "";

        string tsStatus = "";

        CreateResult[] tsResults = client.Create(cOptionsTS, new APIObject[] { ts }, out tsRequestID, out tsStatus);

        TriggeredSendCreateResult tsCreateResults = tsResults[0] as TriggeredSendCreateResult;

        Console.WriteLine("Status Code: " + tsResults[0].StatusCode);

        Console.WriteLine("Status Message: " + tsResults[0].StatusMessage);

        Console.ReadLine();

        //Check for Error

        if (tsStatus != "OK") { throw new Exception(); }

    }

    catch (Exception exCreate)

    {

        Console.WriteLine(exCreate.Message);

        Console.ReadLine();

    }

}

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