Using Amazon RedShift with the AWS .NET API Part 4: code beginnings

Introduction

In the previous post we looked into how to connect to the Amazon RedShift master node using a tool called WorkBenchJ. We also went through some very basic Postgresql statements and tested an equally basic aggregation script.

In this post we’ll install the .NET SDK and start building some test code.

Note that we’ll be concentrating on showing and explaining the technical code examples related to AWS. We’ll ignore software principles like SOLID and layering so that we can stay focused. It’s your responsibility to organise your code properly. There are numerous posts on this blog that take up topics related to software architecture.

Installing the SDK

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