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).