Programmer's Guide for .NET

DB Visual ARCHITECT (DB-VA) is an Object-Relational Mapping tool which supports building database application faster, better and cheaper. In this guide, you will learn how to use the generated persistent .NET code to manipulate the database. It shows you how the data will be inserted, retrieved, updated and deleted. Thus, it also shows you how to run the generated sample .NET code.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Generating C# .NET, Database and Persistent Library

This chapter give you and introduction to DB-VA, describe configure database, generate database and C# .NET code step by step.

Chapter 2 - Configuring Source and Library in Visual Studio .NET 2003

This chapter will show you how to create a project for generated C# code in Visual Studio .NET 2003.

Chapter 3 - Developing ASP .NET Application

In this chapter we will use a simple application to show you how to generate C# code, configure your web application, creating, querying, updating and deleting objects.

Chapter 4 - Developing Standalone .NET Application

In this chapter we will use a simple application to show you how to generate C# code, create standalone C# application, creating, querying, updating and deleting objects.

Chapter 5 - Querying Database

In this chapter, you can learn how to configure and generate the criteria class and set different conditions for the criteria class to retrieve the record from the database.

Chapter 6 - Generating Object-Oriented .NET Source from Relational Database

In this chapter, you will reverse a database schema in DB-VA into Class Diagram and Entity Relationship Diagram. and you will generate Object-Oriented .NET source from the reversed model.

Chapter 7 - Programming in VB .NET

In this chapter, you will develop a VB .NET application which is exactly same as the one in Chapter 4 but using VB .NET instead of C# for development.

Chapter 8 - Programming in C++ .NET

In this chapter, you will develop a VB .NET application which is exactly same as the one in Chapter 4 but using C++ .NET instead of C# for development.