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 work with QuickBooks data in your.NET applications, integrate QuickBooks services with widely used data-oriented technologies, and effortlessly build data access layer for your projects. dotConnect for QuickBooks makes it simple to create.NET applications, working with QuickBooks data. It offers standard ADO.NET classes, such as QuickBooksConnection, QuickBooksCommand, QuickBooksDataAdapter, QuickBooksDataReader, QuickBooksParameter, etc., and thus it's easy to master it. 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.

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. Simple queries are directly compiled to QuickBooks calls and executed by QuickBooks service, while more complex queries are split in parts. Parts of a query are executed against QuickBooks, and returned data is processed by our local SQL engine, which applies advanced SQL features to it.

Entity Framework Support

dotConnect for QuickBooks allows you to work with QuickBooks data via Entity Framework - Microsoft's recommended data access technology. It supports Entity Framework v4, v5, and v6, 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.