[AccessD] QuickBooks Project... Anyone game?

Christopher Hawkins clh at christopherhawkins.com
Thu Jun 24 10:33:11 CDT 2004


"Would you care to email me and start a discussion of what you are 
doing and how I can help?"

Great idea.

If you guys want to take it one step farther than eMail, I have a
message forum set up that is largely unused these days.  I'd be happy
to donate its use for this QB Project.

-C-

---- Original Message ----
From: jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com, 
Subject: RE: [AccessD] QuickBooks Project... Anyone game?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:44:48 -0400

>>You know, since JC is like the equivalent of 3 programmers, I guess 
>we do
>have 5...;-)
>
>ROTFLMAO
>
>You are one SMOOTH talker!
>
>I have not downloaded the SDK.  I didn't really even know what you 
>were up
>to except (apparently) wrapping some kind of DLL in a class or 
>something.  I
>kind of thought you'd come back to me with an email explaining in 
>more
>detail what we are trying to do.  So...
>
>I just joined the QB developer network and started the download.  I 
>am busy
>and don't know when or how much I'll be able to help (the disclaimer 
>that
>means I just want access to your work ;-) however I do have a client 
>right
>now that is using some manual third party tool to do transfers in / 
>out and
>really need to automate this.  Given this, I may actually find time 
>to work
>on this stuff.
>
>Would you care to email me and start a discussion of what you are 
>doing and
>how I can help?
>
>John W. Colby 
>www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Robert 
>Gracie
>Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 7:35 AM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] QuickBooks Project... Anyone game?
>
>
>Christopher,
> I'm glad you asked.....;-) When ever I hear, "Well I'm not sure how 
>much I
>can help, but count me in" type of statement it **Generally** means 
>I really
>can't help, but I would like to have access to the work.. For me at 
>least,
>this has been no easy task, and is requiring a major commitment of 
>effort
>trying to weed through the QB program model.
>
> You and John C. where the *only* two (I was looking for 5) who 
>wanted to be
>a part of the project with no "disclaimers", meaning serious and 
>wanting to
>put in the effort it is going to take to pull this off.
>
> So let me turn this around.....
> Have you (and JC), downloaded and started reviewing the SDK in it's
>entirety, and if so how far into the model are you?
>
> You know, since JC is like the equivilent of 3 programmers, I guess 
>we do
>have 5...;-)
>
>Robert Gracie
>www.servicexp.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Christopher
>Hawkins
>Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 10:17 PM
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] QuickBooks Project... Anyone game?
>
>
>You've had me, JC, Ken at least two others offer to join your 
>project.  How
>much more serious help do you need?  ;)
>
>-C-
>
>---- Original Message ----
>From: Subscriptions at servicexp.com
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com,
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] QuickBooks Project... Anyone game?
>Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:16:50 -0400
>
>>Ken,
>> Bottom line, not enough **serious** interest here. I'm about 15-20 
>>hours into my "QuickBooks Class Build", and it's going OK, not 
>nearly 
>>as fast as I
>>hoped but then again I'm just one guy....
>>
>>
>>Good Luck!!
>>
>>
>>Robert Gracie
>>www.servicexp.com
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Ken Stoker
>>Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 7:51 PM
>>To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>>Subject: RE: [AccessD] QuickBooks Project... Anyone game?
>>
>>
>>I would like to be included as well.  I don't know how much help I 
>can 
>>be, but my partner and I just met with a potential new client and 
>found
>>out that
>>they use Quickbooks for their inventory tracking.  We are to put a
>>proposal
>>together that will integrate a revamped web site that will include a
>>knowledgebase, online purchasing (which part will need to interact
>>with
>>Quickbooks) and some other options.  After our first meeting, I
>>quickly came
>>back and grabbed the list of emails for this string from my deleted
>>items so
>>that I could see what everyone was saying.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Ken
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
>>Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 5:21 AM
>>To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>>Subject: RE: [AccessD] QuickBooks Project... Anyone game?
>>
>>I'm in.  I have a client right now jumping through hoops to do this.
>>
>>John W. Colby
>>www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Robert 
>>Gracie
>>Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 7:35 AM
>>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>>Subject: RE: [AccessD] QuickBooks Project... Anyone game?
>>
>>
>>Christopher,
>> I guess there are about 75 VB examples in the SDK (3.0). All of 
>which 
>>are as seamless as the next as far as I have played with (there 
>just a
>>pain to
>>work with). It is really easy to see this for yourself if you have
>>QuickBooks 2002 or above..
>>
>> The problem is, there are no (none that I can find at least) 
>complete
>>sophisticated solutions that are under 500.00. I have tried the
>>coreObjX
>>dll, but that thing is a nightmare to even get registered on the
>>users
>>machines (even their own install routine will not register 9 time
>>out of
>>10), the other (AcctSync) solutions I found is about 1K, so it's out
>>of my
>>price range.
>>
>> What I'm hoping (going) to build is a class based solution based 
>on 
>>the QBFC. So in the end I will end up with a solution that will 
>allow 
>>for portability, and very easy communications with QB. The solution 
>>will do all
>>the "grunt" work under the hood automatically, and allow me to send
>>and
>>interpret QB requests very easily.
>>
>> It's not easy working with QB's API, and I would have like to made 
>it 
>>an open source kind of thing, but I was hoping for at least 5 
>serious
>>developers to join in.
>>
>>
>>Robert Gracie
>>www.servicexp.com
>>
>>
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