Connect QuickBooks Online Data With .NET Application Easily
dotConnect for QuickBooks Online makes it simple to create .NET applications in C#, VB, or other languages,
working with QuickBooks Online data. It offers standard ADO.NET interface, 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 Online data with less efforts and less code writing. See how easy it is with dotConnect for
QuickBooks Online.
Connecting to QuickBooks Online from Server Explorer
To create a Server Explorer connection, you just need to:
- Click Connect to Database on the Server Explorer toolbar
- Change Data Source to QuickBooks Online Data Source
- Specify the login url to the data source, your QuickBooks Online user id and password
That's all, now you can work with QuickBooks Online data right in Visual Studio - select data from
QuickBooks Online entities and edit it.
QuickBooks Online Data Binding
- Build your data access layer without writing code manually
- Configure dotConnect for QuickBooks Online components in powerful design-time editors
- Bind data grids and other controls to QuickBooks Online data just by configuring the smart tags
- Work with QuickBooks Online data just like with a database
How it Works
Advanced Queries
Simple Queries
More complex queries are split in parts, and parts of query are executed against
QuickBooks Online
Simple queries are directly compiled to QuickBooks Online calls
Our local SQL engine processes the results and applies advanced SQL features, used in
the query
These API calls are executed on QuickBooks Online side providing the best
performance
Returned data are passed to the application
dotConnect for QuickBooks Online offers powerful local SQL engine for SELECT statement
execution. It executes SQL statements in the following way:
Simple SQL statements are translated to QuickBooks Online API calls and executed on the
QuickBooks Online side directly. However, dotConnect for QuickBooks Online also supports more
advanced SQL features, such as SQL functions or expressions, complex WHERE conditions,
joins, etc.
If you use these more advanced SQL features, dotConnect for QuickBooks Online queries all
the data from the objects that participate in the query, and executes the statement locally.
How to Start
dotConnect for QuickBooks Online has a detailed documentation that can help you quickly get started with our
product. Read our tutorials first:
Connecting to QuickBooks Online
This tutorial describes how to connect to QuickBooks Online either from Visual Studio Server Explorer or
from application code via QuickBooksConnection.
Read Tutorial
Retrieving QuickBooks Online Data
This tutorial describes how to get QuickBooks Online data with QuickBooksCommand and
QuickBooksDataReader or with QuickBooksDataAdapter.
Read Tutorial
Updating QuickBooks Online Data
This tutorial describes how to manage QuickBooks Online data with SQL and the QuickBooksCommand class or
with the QuickBooksDataAdapter class.
Read Tutorial