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- DBtoVB Wizard 1.1
- (C)1995,96 Tuomas Salste
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- 1. What is DBtoVB Wizard?
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- DBtoVB Wizard is a shareware tool designed to automatize database
- application development with Visual Basic 4.0 and Microsoft Access from
- version 1.0 to 7.0. A version for VB 3.0 is available too (WWW address below).
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- DBtoVB takes an existing database as input, and generates a Basic module
- including routines to create another similar but empty database. This
- module can then be appended to a VB project to take care of the typical
- "Create New Database..." application menu command. All you have to do is
- to call the function Create_Database("MYDB.MDB").
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- The process is highly automated. If you want, you can choose what parts
- of the database the resulting code should create. You can exclude
- unneeded tables or fields from the resulting database, for example.
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- Version 1.1 also includes a Wizard that generates CREATE TABLE commands
- in MS Access SQL.
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- 2. The advantages of using DBtoVB Wizard:
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- 1. DBtoVB Wizard will take care of a tedious and error-prone piece of code
- generation that is normally done by the programmer
- 2. You can design the database with your favourite database application
- (MS Access, Data Manager, Visual Data)
- 3. The coding of database creation routines can safely be postponed up to the
- point when the database structure has been established - often the
- structure of the database evolves during application development
- 4. This way, the productivity of software development will rise
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- 3. Limitations
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- DBtoVB Wizard only creates Tables, QueryDefs, including Fields and Indexes.
- It does not generate code for creating References (foreign keys), stored
- procedures etc.
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- QueryDefs can be created using the generated .bas code. However,
- QueryDefs cannot be created using the generated SQL code (CREATE TABLE).
- SQL support is limited to Tables.
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- 4. Registration
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- DBtoVB Wizard is shareware, and the registration fee is only $20. See
- the Help menu for more details.
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- Tuomas.Salste@Helsinki.Fi
- http://www.helsinki.fi/~salste/vb.html
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