stDBE

Summary nCodian's™ stDBE is a simple, flat file database engine in an ActiveX DLL. Benefits of stDBE include: simplicity small DLL size small memory footprint

Using stDBE is appropriate for maintaining data that does not warrant a more complex or resource-consuming database engine, such as:

• relatively small user databases

• non-user data; data used programmatically by application developers

Developer's Help File

The developer's Windows compiled help file First Steps in the Quick Start section contains commented VB6 source code to get developers started quickly.

Demo Application

stDBE Demo is a compiled demonstration application. It demonstrates features of the stDBE ActiveX DLL for evaluation by software developers.

The demo is designed to let software developers do two main things for purposes of evaluating stDBE:

• execute methods and see what happens

• monitor object properties to get a feel for what stDBE is doing behind the screen

Provided Sample Databases

The demo ships with sample databases so you can get started right away with seeing what stDBE does. They are installed in the Databases folder in the installation folder of the application. To get started, use the Open DB command on the toolbar to open a database.

Main Window - Two Halves

The demo's main window is divided into a top half and a bottom half.

Top Half

The top half lets you execute the most basic database operations: open a database, close a database, create a new database, create and save a new record, update an existing record, delete a record, navigate the table of records by getting the first, next, previous, and last records, and get a record by number

and lets you see single records displayed

Bottom Half

The bottom half lets you monitor object properties

and lets you execute additional methods that act on multiple records.