dotConnect for QuickBooks

Connect QuickBooks Data With .NET Application Easily

dotConnect for QuickBooks is an ADO.NET provider for working with QuickBooks data through the standard ADO.NET or Entity Framework interfaces. It allows you to easily integrate QuickBooks data into your .NET applications, and integrate QuickBooks services with widely used data-oriented technologies.

dotConnect for QuickBooks has the same standard ADO.NET classes as other standard ADO.NET providers: QuickBooksConnection, QuickBooksCommand, QuickBooksDataAdapter, QuickBooksDataReader, QuickBooksParameter, etc. This allows you quickly get started with it and eliminates the need to study any QuickBooks data access specificities.

dotConnect for QuickBooks makes it simple to create .NET applications in C#, VB, or other languages, working with QuickBooks data. It's powerful design-time editors together with seamless Visual Studio integration allow you to work with QuickBooks data with less efforts and less code writing. See how easy it is with dotConnect for QuickBooks.

Features

• Access live QuickBooks store data
• Perform aggregations & JOINs for data analysis
• Encrypted connections protect your data
• Improves performance by processing queries locally
• Simplifies data access with Entity Framework integration
• Design EF models visually in your IDE
• Streamlines development with design-time features
• Simplifies data access and manipulation in Visual Studio

Compatibility

The following table show which version of this package to use with which version of frameworks.

More information here

Usage

To establish a connection to server you have to provide the required connection parameters to dotConnect for QuickBooks. This information is used by QuickBooksConnection component to connect to QuickBooks. The parameters are represented as a connection string. You can compose the connection string manually or have dotConnect for QuickBooks construct it for you.

The following connection string parameters are required:

CompanyID - The string that uniquely identifies a QuickBooks company, for example, "Company Id=1440905870".

Refresh Token - the OAuth 2.0 refresh token for QuickBooks.

Token Server - a file or registry key to store refresh tokens between sessions. For example, "Token Server=file://D:\temp\QuickBooks_oauth_token_1234.txt" or "Token Server=reg://HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Devart\QuickBooks\OAuth_12345"

Client ID - one of the pair of OAuth 2.0 credentials, that you can obtain when you register a client application at developer.intuit.com/myapps with your developer account.

Client Secret - the second one of the pair of OAuth 2.0 credentials, that you can obtain when you register a client application at developer.intuit.com/myapps with your developer account.

This snippet directly configures a QuickBooks connection using a connection string.

quickBooksConnection.ConnectionString = "Company Id=1440905870;Refresh Token=AB11590759756UCO8O6CpRQcAMP00sIANafgS8Y4RN10rpLJNM;Token Server=file://D:\\temp\\QuickBooksToken.txt";

Read the full documentation for connection here.

Creating Connection in Server Explorer

To create a Server Explorer connection, you just need to:

1. Click Connect to Database on the Server Explorer toolbar 2. If the QuickBooks Data Source is not selected by default, click the Change button. 3. Select QuickBooks Data Source (dotConnect for QuickBooks) and click OK. 4. Specify the QuickBooks API Path, your user id and authentication token.

Power of SQL

dotConnect for QuickBooks allows you to perform SQL queries against your QuickBooks data. Use SQL statements to work with QuickBooks accounts, contacts, leads, contracts, products, campaigns opportunities, and other objects.

Our provider offers full CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) support and allows you to get QuickBooks data with SELECT statements and manage data with INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.

No need to study and use complex QuickBooks API, just use familiar SQL statements. You may use complex JOINs, WHERE conditions, etc. - all the SQL benefits, not available with QuickBooks API.

Entity Framework Support

dotConnect for QuickBooks allows you to access QuickBooks data via Entity Framework - Microsoft's recommended data access technology. It supports Entity Framework and Entity Framework Core, and enables you to use the following Entity Framework features with QuickBooks data:

• LINQ to Entities (no need for QuickBooks API)
• Entity relations with lazy/eager loading
• No need to post each edited/created object separately - a single SaveChanges() call to persist all the changed objects

dotConnect for QuickBooks provides enhanced Entity Framework support for QuickBooks data with a bundled visual designer for ORM models with Visual Studio integration - Entity Developer. Standard Visual Studio Entity Data Model designer is also supported.

QuickBooks Data Binding

• Build your data access layer without writing code manually
• Configure dotConnect for QuickBooks components in powerful design-time editors
• Bind data grids and other controls to QuickBooks data just by configuring the smart tags
• Work with QuickBooks data just like with a database

License

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Trial Limitations

The dotConnect for QuickBooks Evaluation License lets you try dotConnect for QuickBooks Trial Edition for a period of 30 days. You may not use applications developed using Trial versions of the Software for any commercial purposes.

Support Area

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