opening a connection to quickbooks

[Aahz]

In article <nOidnYB9G7d8goDWnZ2dnUVZ_jednZ2d at wavecable.com>,
 <jfabiani at yolo.com> wrote:
>
>Has anyone ever attempted to work with quickbooks in a real time fashion? I
>need some advise. I'm trying to work out a way to have real time
>updates/inserts/and queries.  I'd also like not to use all the user
>licenses. But...
>
>I have discovered that opening a connection to quickbooks takes a long
>time (as much as 11 seconds).  Is there a way I can open/create the
>connection in a thread (so the rest of the prog can continue) and then
>use the connection in the rest of the program to make queries? Or does
>someone have a suggestion as how to get around this problem.

Are you trying to use the XML interface or the COM interface?  Either
way, probably using a thread would work.  (Note that I actually know very
little about QB -- I just had a research project a couple of months ago
about trying to integrate with it.)
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