Sales force App Integration ( .NET Development) & more detail for New bee

Question

Yes Please note that I am very new to Salesforce , so please understand if I am not clear or not specific at anything.

I am new at Salesforce, and I need to make an App in ASP.NET which help clients/users to add hours/some field details at salesforce.

So what I need is, I need to make an web Application which will get details from Salesforce ( the details it self are custom object which I am explaining ahead) and do some calculations at my web App a& return back the result & display it at Salesforce.

So in summary : 1) Which way we can integrate .NET Web App at Salesforce 2) How we can make custom fields/page required which will be going to use at Web App & display at Salesforce page.

3) How we can make a custom UI & fields at Salesforce ? 4) How this field can be fetch/expose on submit at Web App?

** 5) Which API to use ? ( My case is we are planning that we will provide a way at Salesforce that a user can insert total hours, todays hours invested , remaining hours...based on these we can bill them. so for all of these calculations can be managed with which API ?)

6) Also how can I display the results & other things at Salesforce, I mean can I design page , if yes then which options I have to design page other then Apex??

.... there are many more things I need to take care of & need to know . but as I am new at Salesforce so please guide me Tech Experts.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This is a rather broad question, so I will give you the high-level steps of what needs to be done:

1) Create a Custom Object using Build; Create; Objects menu.

2) Save your enterprise WSDL under Build; Develop; API menu. Typically you open the wsdl in a browser and save the web page as something.wsdl

3) In .NET create a web service reference using the enterprise WSDL you saved in a local file

4) You can write and read from to the custom object (or any Salesforce object) using the SF API. To do so, you will need to write SOQL.

Once you have step 1,2,3 done, then you should look at the SF documentation on binding to the API and how to run insert and update statements in SOQL. It is too much info for a SO question.