dotConnect for Zoho Books is an ADO.NET provider for working with Zoho Books data through the standard ADO.NET or Entity Framework interfaces. It allows you to easily work with Zoho Books data in your.NET applications, integrate Zoho Books services with widely used data-oriented technologies, and effortlessly build data access layer for your projects. dotConnect for Zoho Books makes it simple to create.NET applications, working with Zoho Books data. It offers standard ADO.NET classes, such as ZohoConnection, ZohoCommand, ZohoDataAdapter, ZohoDataReader, ZohoParameter, etc., 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 Zoho Books data with less efforts and less code writing. Power of SQL dotConnect for Zoho Books allows you to perform SQL queries against your Zoho Books data. Use SQL statements to work with Zoho Books accounts, contacts, leads, contracts, products, campaigns opportunities, and other objects. Our provider offers full CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) support and allows you to get Zoho Books data with SELECT statements and manage data with INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements. No need to study and use complex Zoho Books API, just use familiar SQL statements. You may use complex JOINs, WHERE conditions, etc. - all the SQL benefits, not available with Zoho Books API. Simple queries are directly compiled to Zoho Books calls and executed by Zoho Books service, while more complex queries are split in parts. Parts of a query are executed against Zoho Books, and returned data is processed by our local SQL engine, which applies advanced SQL features to it. Entity Framework Support dotConnect for Zoho Books allows you to work with Zoho Books data via Entity Framework - Microsoft's recommended data access technology. It supports Entity Framework v4, v5, and v6, and enables you to use the following Entity Framework features with Zoho Books data: LINQ to Entities (no need for Zoho Books API) Entity relations with lazy/eager loading No need to post each edited/created object separately - a single SaveChanges() call to persist all the changed objects dotConnect for Zoho Books provides enhanced Entity Framework support for Zoho Books data with a bundled visual designer for ORM models with Visual Studio integration - Entity Developer. Standard Visual Studio Entity Data Model designer is also supported.