Adding to Victors, Chili and Hassan's answer. Glad to have stumbled on this question as I myself was struggling with the QBFC examples.
Here is a full set of code that might just help someone down the road. If in the meantime someone could just point me in the direction of some useful documentation...that would be great.
Getting the Employee data to an XML string
public static string EmployeeListXML()
{
QBSessionManager SessionManager = new QBSessionManager();
IMsgSetRequest msgSetReq = SessionManager.CreateMsgSetRequest("US", 8, 0);
IEmployeeQuery employee = msgSetReq.AppendEmployeeQueryRq();
employee.IncludeRetElementList.Add("IsActive");
employee.IncludeRetElementList.Add("ListID");
employee.IncludeRetElementList.Add("EditSequence");
employee.IncludeRetElementList.Add("FirstName");
employee.IncludeRetElementList.Add("LastName");
employee.IncludeRetElementList.Add("SSN");
//employee.IncludeRetElementList.Add("ParentRef");
//employee.IncludeRetElementList.Add("DataExtRet"); //will return non-private and/or private data extension fields depending on the OwnerIDList, below
employee.OwnerIDList.Add("0"); // required for non-private data extn fields
//customers.OwnerIDList.Add("Your Appln GUID"); // Use this to get private data extns for the Appln identified by the GUID
SessionManager.OpenConnection2("", Application.ProductName, ENConnectionType.ctLocalQBD);
//SessionManager.BeginSession(string.Empty, ENOpenMode.omDontCare);
SessionManager.BeginSession(frmMain.QBFileName, ENOpenMode.omDontCare); // I have the filename on frmMain
IMsgSetResponse Resp = SessionManager.DoRequests(msgSetReq);
SessionManager.EndSession();
SessionManager.CloseConnection();
//MessageBox.Show(Resp.ToXMLString());
return Resp.ToXMLString();
}
Putting the XML string into a List of Emplpoyee Objects
public static List<Employee> EmployeeXMLtoList()
{
string sXML = EmployeeListXML();
List<Employee> lstEmp = new List<Employee>();
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.LoadXml(sXML);
XmlNodeList parentNode = xmlDoc.GetElementsByTagName("EmployeeRet");
foreach (XmlNode childNode in parentNode)
{
Employee oEmp = new Employee();
oEmp.ListID = childNode.SelectSingleNode("ListID").InnerText;
oEmp.EditSequence = childNode.SelectSingleNode("EditSequence").InnerText;
oEmp.Active = childNode.SelectSingleNode("IsActive").InnerText;
oEmp.FirstName = childNode.SelectSingleNode("FirstName").InnerText;
oEmp.LastName = childNode.SelectSingleNode("LastName").InnerText;
oEmp.SSN = childNode.SelectSingleNode("SSN").InnerText;
lstEmp.Add(oEmp);
}
return lstEmp;
}
Function that return an Employee Object using Linq
public static Employee GetEmployeeObject(string sSSN)
{
Employee oReturn = null;
List<Employee> lstEmployee = EmployeeXMLtoList();
IEnumerable<Employee> lstEmps = from oEmp in lstEmployee
where oEmp.SSN == sSSN
select oEmp;
foreach (var oEmp in lstEmps)
{
oReturn = oEmp;
}
return oReturn;
}
Example of Code
Employee oEmployee = QB.GetEmployeeObject("112-35-8560");
Employee Class
public class Employee
{
private string sEmployeeID;
private string sSSN;
private string sLastName;
private string sFirstName;
private string sAddress1;
private string sAddress2;
private string sCity;
private string sState;
private string sZipCode;
private string sGender;
private string sEthnicity;
private DateTime dDOB;
private string sMaritalStatus;
private int iDependants;
private string sUScitizen;
private decimal iPayRate;
private string sPhone;
private DateTime dHireDate;
private string sEmail;
public Employee() { }
public string EmployeeID
{
get { return sEmployeeID; }
set { sEmployeeID = value; }
}
public string ListID
{
get; set;
}
public string EditSequence
{
get; set;
}
public string Active
{
get; set;
}
public string SSN
{
get { return sSSN; }
set { sSSN = value; }
}
public string LastName
{
get { return sLastName; }
set { sLastName = value; }
}
public string FirstName
{
get { return sFirstName; }
set { sFirstName = value; }
}
public string FullName
{
get { return FirstName + " " + LastName; }
set { }
}
public string Address1
{
get { return sAddress1; }
set { sAddress1 = value; }
}
public string Address2
{
get { return sAddress2; }
set { sAddress2 = value; }
}
public string State
{
get { return sState; }
set { sState = value; }
}
public string City
{
get { return sCity; }
set { sCity = value; }
}
public string ZipCode
{
get { return sZipCode; }
set { sZipCode = value; }
}
public string Gender
{
get { return sGender; }
set { sGender = value; }
}
public string Ethnicity
{
get { return sEthnicity; }
set { sEthnicity = value; }
}
public DateTime DOB
{
get { return dDOB; }
set { dDOB = value; }
}
public string MaritalStatus
{
get { return sMaritalStatus; }
set { sMaritalStatus = value; }
}
public int Dependants
{
get { return iDependants; }
set { iDependants = value; }
}
public string UScitizen
{
get { return sUScitizen; }
set { sUScitizen = value; }
}
public decimal PayRate
{
get { return iPayRate; }
set { iPayRate = value; }
}
public DateTime HireDate
{
get { return dHireDate; }
set { dHireDate = value; }
}
public string Phone
{
get { return sPhone; }
set { sPhone = value; }
}
public string Email
{
get { return sEmail; }
set { sEmail = value; }
}
}
