This book provides information about using Sybase® DataWindow® technology in Visual Studio 2005.
This book is for anyone developing applications that use DataWindow .NET™ in the .NET Framework. It assumes that:
You are familiar with the DataWindow painter. If not, see the DataWindow Designer User’s Guide.
You are an experienced user of Visual Basic or C# and Visual Studio 2005. If not, see the documentation for Visual Studio and your language of choice.
The DataWindow .NET documentation set includes the following books that are available as printed books and in compiled HTML Help:
This book, which provides information about creating and deploying applications that use DataWindow .NET and programming with DataWindow objects. It includes a brief tutorial.
The DataWindow Designer User’s Guide tells you how to build the DataWindow objects that you use in DataWindow .NET.
Connecting to Your Database describes the database interfaces you can use in DataWindow Designer and in your .NET application.
The documentation set also includes:
The Connection Reference, which describes database parameters and preferences. This book is available in the online Help for DataWindow Designer.
The DataWindow Object Reference, which describes DataWindow expressions and the functions you use with them, and properties of DataWindow objects. This book is available in the online Help for DataWindow Designer.
The DataWindow Reference, which describes all the interfaces, classes, methods, and other members of the DataWindow .NET assembly. This book can be installed into Visual Studio. It is also available as a compiled HTML Help file (dwref25.chm). It is not currently available on the Sybase Technical Library CD or the Product Manuals Web site.
An Installation Guide and release bulletin.
You can find sample code on the Sybase CodeXchange Web site and in the Sybase\DataWindow .NET 2.5\Code Examples directory.
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