new user - introduction

[wolfgang.muellauer]

hello,
my name is Wolfgang Muellauer.
I am a C# / C++ / XBase programmer and I live in Vienna / Austria.
I have one old but important legacy application written in the 80-ies that I keep running for one customer.
I have been working with Alaska XBase++ 1.90 but as the upgrade to XBase++ 2.00 breaks my application
I started looking for an alternative to Alaska. As I am currently writing all my new apps in C# (mostly WPF - apps)
XSharp would be a perfect fit for me and help me kepp my old codebase alive.

Since yesterday I am a proud FOX and I have already downloaded the 2.4 Compiler and installed it in a VM.

As first step I will try to write some spikes for accessing my Advantage Database Server with the RDD and
then try to move my old code over to XSharp.
I am looking forward to working with this new Development Environment.
Greetings from Vienna
Wolfgang Muellauer

[robert]

Wolfgang,

Welcome!
The ADS RDD is built right into the XSharp.RDD assembly. You do not need to load anything, however the ACE32 (32 bits) or ACE64 (64 bits) files and their support files must be provided by you.

To load data with ADS you set a new default driver

RDDSetDefault("AXDBFNTX") or RDDSetDefault("AXDBFCDX") etc. See https://www.xsharp.eu/runtimehelp/html/N_Advantage.htm for a list of RDD names.
If you are accessing local files then that is all you need to do.
If you want to login to a remove server then add a reference to XSharp.RDD and call the function AdsConnect60() to specify the database and login info (https://www.xsharp.eu/runtimehelp/html/ ... nect60.htm) The last parameter is an out parameter that receives the connection handle.
You can then call AX_SetConnectionHandle() and pass that handle. You have to cast the handle to a DWORD before sending it into AX_SetConnectionHandle() . We'll add an overload that takes an intptr in one of the next builds.
Subsequent files that will be opened with one of the advantage RDDs will then use this connection handle.

Robert

[wriedmann]

Hi Robert, hi Wolfgang,

X# works like Clipper when the Advantage RDD is used:

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function Start( ) as void
	local cFileName			as string

	cFileName			:= "c:cavoworkeasyfaktv3dbfzako.dbf"
	cFileName			:= "x:easyfaktdbfzako.dbf"
	DBUseArea( true, "AXDBFCDX", cFileName, "ZAKO", true, true )
	ZAKO->( DBGoTop() )
	while ! ZAKO->( EoF() )
		System.Console.WriteLine( ( string ) ZAKO->ZAKO )
		ZAKO->( DBSkip() )
	end
	ZAKO->( DBCloseArea() )

	return

and no AdsConnect60() call is needed if the data is accessed only through the RDD (I have verified on the ADS console that my test application really uses the remote server).
The AdsConnect60() call is only needed when the AdsSqlServer class is used.
Another possibilty to use ADS from X# is the Advantage.Data.Provider.dll that implements a ADO Data provider (my favorite to access legacy ADS data from new applications - mainly Windows services, but also WPF and Windows Forms applications).
Wolfgang

[lumberjack]

Hi Wolfgang,

hello,
my name is Wolfgang Muellauer.
I am a C# / C++ / XBase programmer and I live in Vienna / Austria.
Since yesterday I am a proud FOX and I have already downloaded the 2.4 Compiler and installed it in a VM.

Welcome aboard!

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