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July 3, 2012

Introducing C# Toolkit for loading adhoc csv files into a database: Dfloader

Have you ever needed a simple programmatic API in C# for loading islands of data from csv files into a SQL database? Well we have been asked to do this sort of thing on a couple of different projects. So we wrote a little toolkit to allows us to manage the process of uploading adhoc csv files into a set of highly normalized tables in SQL Server.

The toolkit is open source - please do check it out at http://dfloader.codeplex.com

3 comments :

Jackie Co Kad said...

great

Jackie Co Kad said...

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