Question

We use QuickBooks for financial management, and feed it from a variety of sources. I now need to hook it up to BizTalk, and I’d hate to reinvent the wheel. I’ve done searches, and as far as I can tell there’s no QuickBooks adapter for BizTalk. Does anyone know of anything that’ll do the job, preferably something that doesn’t suck?

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Doesn’t the QB SDK require that Quickbooks be running on the client machine? Is there any way around it?

Answer 1

Quickbooks talks .NET quite easily. You’ll need the QuickBooks SDK 7.0 and a copy of Visual Studio.NET, but after that it’s very easy to do anything with Quickbooks.

Imports QBFC7Lib  Sub AttachToDB()     If isAttachedtoQB Then Exit Sub      Lasterror = 'Unknown QuickBooks Error'     Try         QbSession = New QBSessionManager         QbSession.OpenConnection('', 'Your Company Name')         QbSession.BeginSession('', ENOpenMode.omDontCare)         MsgReq = QbSession.CreateMsgSetRequest('UK', 6, 0)         MsgReq.Attributes.OnError = ENRqOnError.roeStop          Lasterror = ''         isAttachedtoQB = True     Catch e As Exception         If Not QbSession Is Nothing Then             QbSession.CloseConnection()             QbSession = Nothing         End If         isAttachedtoQB = False         Lasterror = 'QuickBooks Connection Error. - ' + e.Message + '.'     End Try End Sub 

See http://developer.intuit.com/ for more information.