Melissa - Address Object .NET Wrappers

Purpose

This is the code for you to run Address Object in .NET.

Please feel free to copy or embed this code to your own project. Happy coding!

For latest Melissa Address Object release notes, please visit: https://releasenotes.melissa.com/on-premise-api/address-object/

For further details, please visit: https://docs.melissa.com/on-premise-api/address-object/address-object-quickstart.html

Tested Environments

• Windows 10 64-bit .NET 7.0, Powershell 5.1
• Linux 64-bit .NET 7.0, Ubuntu 20.04.05 LTS
• Melissa Address Object for 2024-04
• Wrapper file(s) have not changed since 2023-12

Getting Started

Download this project

$ git clone https://github.com/MelissaData/AddressObject-Dotnet-Wrappers
$ cd AddressObject-Dotnet-Wrappers

Copy wrappers to your project folder

Import mdAddr_cSharpCode.cs to your project/solution and include the following line in your code to begin using the wrapper.

using MelissaData;

Build mdAddrNET.dll (optional, legacy)

Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt

It is important to note that you must be able to initialize the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt environment for x86_x64. The Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt should already be downloaded if you have Microsoft Visual Studio installed.

To check if you are able to intialize the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt for x86_x64, you can open the start menu and search for x86_x64 Cross Tools Command Prompt for VS 2022. If this program exists, then you may continue to the next steps.

Alternatively, you can check to see if the following filepath exists: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat (with Visual Studio 2022 installed). If the filepath exists, then you may continue to the next steps.

Set up Melissa Updater

Melissa Updater is a CLI application allowing the user to update their Melissa applications/data.

• Download Melissa Updater here: https://releases.melissadata.net/Download/Library/WINDOWS/NET/ANY/latest/MelissaUpdater.exe
• Create a folder within the cloned repo called MelissaUpdater.
• Put MelissaUpdater.exe in MelissaUpdater folder you just created.

Run Script

Parameters:

• license (optional): a license key to run the powershell script

$ .\BuildAddrNETdll.ps1

or

$ .\BuildAddrNETdll.ps1 -license "<your_license_key>"

See also

• Melissa - Address Object Windows Dotnet
• Melissa - Address Object Linux Dotnet

Contact Us

For free technical support, please call us at 800-MELISSA ext. 4 (800-635-4772 ext. 4) or email us at tech@melissa.com.

To purchase this product, contact Melissa sales department at 800-MELISSA ext. 3 (800-635-4772 ext. 3).