I am a developer working for a small CPA firm. I am trying to write a small C# console app that will help my firm price their returns. Right now the process is manual and time consuming. I've managed to get the Lacerte tax program installed with sample data, but I'm not an accountant and am having a hard time trying to figure out where the data that I need to check for lives.

I was able to set up an ODBC connector to read the data using a query string, but the data doesn't come back in a format that I'm able to interpret. I would appreciate any help you could provide, whether that be a class object, a mapping document, or something that could help set me on the right path.

Thanks!