How to programmatically determine whether a Small Business Accounting item is taxable (920197)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 Software Development Kit 1.2
  • Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006
  • Microsoft Office Small Business Management Edition 2006

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INTRODUCTION

You can determine whether an item in Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting is taxable by using the software development kit (SDK).

MORE INFORMATION

You can determine whether any Small Business Accounting type that implements the ITaxGroup interface is taxable. To do this, examine the value of the object's AutoIncludeAllTaxCodes property.

The following code sample prints the value of the AutoIncludeAllTaxCodes property for an item in the Northwind Traders company. Northwind Traders is a fictitious company that is used for demonstration in Small Business Accounting. The code sample retrieves an item from the database and then prints the item's name and the item's status as taxable or not taxable.
// Declare the ISmallBusinessInstance iSbi variable.
ISmallBusinessInstance iSbi;

// iSbi must be instantiated before continuing.

IInventoryItemAccount item = (IInventoryItemAccount) GetAccountByName(iSbi.ItemAccounts, "Fishing Line");
Console.WriteLine("\nItem Name:\t{0}\nTaxable:\t{1}\n", item.Name, item.ItemTaxGroup.AutoIncludeAllTaxCodes);
Console.ReadLine();

static IAccount GetAccountByName(IBaseMasterView view, string acctName)
{
	IAccount account = null;
	DataRow row = null;

	if (view != null)
	{
		DataView dv = view.DataView;

		dv.RowFilter = String.Format("Name='{0}'", acctName);            
		dv.Sort = "ModifiedDateTime DESC";
    
		// In case there is more than one row, we retrieve the latest one.
		if (dv.Count > 0)
		{
			row = dv[0].Row;
		}
	}

	if (row != null)
	{
		account = (IAccount) view.GetByDataRow(row);
	}

	return account;
}
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:7/24/2006
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