DataGate Programmer's Guide: Key Concepts & Tools

This section of the documentation contains the basics to assist you in using DG.

In This Section

Introduction
Describes an overview of DataGate and how to access the DG Assembly.
Connecting To/From a Database
Describes overviews and examples on Connecting to/From a database and covers how to manage database connections and database names.
Accessing a File
Describes the steps and code examples for accessing a file. This includes topics on using the FileAdapter class, database file records and AdgDataSet, reading and writing to database files, efficient file access, and verifying results with exception handling.
Calling Stored Procedures
A tutorial in calling a stored procedure, covering Database Connections and Program Paths, Procedural Construction of Parameter Lists, Accessing Parameter Data, and Structured Types and Arrays as Parameters.
Error Handling
Describes how exceptions are handled by DG. Most often, these exceptions are in the form of a condition identifier (provided by the Error field), and a text message (provided by the Message property).