Purpose
The ObjectStore Active Toolkit Tutorial demonstrates how to use the Active Toolkit (ATK) ActiveX and OLE DB programming interface to ObjectStore. Audience
This tutorial is for experienced Visual Basic, VBScript, Java, JavaScript, or C++ developers who are developing applications that run under Windows NT or Windows 95 and use an ActiveX interface to access objects stored in an ObjectStore database. It assumes some familiarity with ObjectStore Inspector Release 6.0. Scope
This book supports Release 6.0 of the ATK interface to ObjectStore Release 6.0. Information in this book assumes that ATK is installed and configured. How This Tutorial Is Organized
The tutorial has six modules:
Sample Data
This tutorial refers to sample applications and demonstration databases. If you installed ATK using the installation program defaults, you can find them in these directories:
Component | Location |
---|---|
ATK | C:\odi\ATK6.0 |
Demonstration Database | C:\odi\ATK6.0\Examples\demodbs |
All examples in this tutorial refer to these locations.
Notation Conventions
This document uses the following conventions:
Internet Sources of More Information
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Product support
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Training
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