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                              DBtoVB Wizard 1.1 
                          (C)1995-98 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 and Microsoft Access from 
version 1.0 to 7.0. Compilations exist for VB 4.0 and 5.0.

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").

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. 

Version 1.1 also includes a Wizard that generates CREATE TABLE commands
in MS Access SQL. 

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

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. 

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. 

DBtoVB supports max. 200 Tables + QueryDefs, 500 Fields in one Table,
and 50 Indexes in one Table.

4. Registration
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DBtoVB Wizard is shareware, and the registration fee is $49. See the 
Help menu for more details.


Tuomas Salste, Aivosto Oy
vbshop@aivosto.com
http://www.aivosto.com/vb.html


