• Example1 CS
• Example1 VB
• Example2 CS
• Example2 VB

Introduction

In my last customer project I had to implement a kind of "quick ordering software" for a machine manufacturer company. The goal of this project was to give the construction engineers the possibility to send an auto generated order list to the buying department. The construction department is using a PDM system based on SQL Server 2000 with an Access frontend, while the buying department and the other economic departments are using an SAP system. So the main task in my project was to implement an interface for these two systems, especially to receive the necessary data from the SAP system into my .NET application. After a short search on the internet I have found ERPConnect by Theobald Software. This tool allowed me to directly access the data from BAPIs and Tables in the SAP System I needed.

On Codeproject I only found some articles about the .NET Connector by SAP, but no article dealing with ERPConnect, so I thought that it might be interesting for the other users to read about the usage, the features and my personal experience with a second tool for SAP interface programming. Because of understandable reasons I don't want to publish the code of my customer project, so I wrote two examples that explain the usage of ERPConnect basically. The first example is dealing with BAPI access while the second example is dealing with directly reading from SAP tables.

I have included the two examples in VB.NET and C# in the download section above. I have removed the SAP login and connection data from the projects, to try the examples you have to fill them with your own connection and login information.