How to create subscribers in ExactTarget using C# code

ExactTarget is a cloud service provided by Salesforce for running email campaign for email marketing. For this we need to create subscribers.

 

Here is a code for to create subscribers 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 AddSubscribers()

{

    //Account authentication information for an ExactTarget user. Access it from web.config

    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[6];

    //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";

    //Attribute - City

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

    newSub.Attributes[4].Name = "City";

    newSub.Attributes[4].Value = "Johannesburg";

    newSub.Attributes[5] = new ExactTargetClient.Attribute();

    newSub.Attributes[5].Name = "Country";

    newSub.Attributes[5].Value = "South Africa";

    //Specify the busiess unit ID

    newSub.Client = new ClientID();

       //Manage via a config file

    newSub.Client.ID = 1234567; 

    newSub.Client.IDSpecified = true;

    //Declare the list we want to add the subscriber to

    //Please manage these values via a configuration file

    SubscriberList mylist = new SubscriberList();

    mylist.ID = 1234;

    mylist.IDSpecified = true;

    //Relate the List to the Subscriber

    newSub.Lists = new SubscriberList[] { mylist };

    //Instantiate the CreateOptions object for the create call of TSD

    CreateOptions cOptionsTS = new CreateOptions();

    cOptionsTS.RequestType = RequestType.Asynchronous;

    cOptionsTS.RequestTypeSpecified = true;

    SaveOption saveOption = new SaveOption();

    saveOption.SaveAction = SaveAction.UpdateAdd;

    saveOption.PropertyName = "*";

    cOptionsTS.SaveOptions = new SaveOption[] { saveOption };

    try

    {

        //Create the request to add the subscriber

        string tsRequestID = "";

        string tsStatus = "";

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

        Console.WriteLine("Overall Status ::: " + tsStatus);

        Console.WriteLine("Number of Results ::: " + tsStatus.Length);

        foreach (CreateResult result in tsResults)

        {

            Console.WriteLine("Status Code and Message ::: " + result.StatusCode + " " + result.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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