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Copyright © 1982, 2004. Raining Data Corporation. All rights reserved.
Raining Data, TigerLogic, D3, Pick, Omnis, mvDesigner, and mvEnterprise
are trademarks of Raining Data Corporation.

Pick Data Provider Version:  	1.4.0
Document Version:		May 2004

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CONTENTS
   Documentation Files
   Sample Applications
   About Pick Data Provider
   New Features
   Activating

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Documentation Files

To open a .pdf file (portable document format), which is viewed with
Adobe Acrobat Reader, double-click the file. Acrobat is provided free 
by Adobe Systems, which is located on our Web site at:
http://www.rainingdata.com/support/documentation/index.html

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Sample Applications

Before running the WebForm and WebDemo sample applications, the Windows 
Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server must be properly configured.

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About Pick Data Provider

Pick Data Provider can simultaneously service Client/Server applications, 
SOAP Web services, and HTTP Web applications written using 
Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET Standard, Microsoft® Visual C# .NET Standard, 
Microsoft® Visual J# .NET Standard, or Microsoft® ASP.NET. Pick Data 
Provider works with D3, UniData, and UniVerse database servers running 
on Windows and UNIX platforms. Additionally, Pick Data Provider provides 
four libraries:

  * RDTA.PickDP.Connector
  * RDTA.PickDP.Extensions
  * RDTA.PickDP.WebExtensions
  * System.Data.PickDP 

WARNING- Undocumented classes, methods, properties, and events are not 
	 supported and may not be included in future releases.
 
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New Features

ADO.NET
   Provides an industry standard database-programming paradigm. Pick data 
   can be natively accessed using standard Microsoft ADO.NET data access and
   representation inside of Visual Studio.

ADO.NET Samples
   Nine projects are available from two solutions.
   The first solution is located in
   S:\Samples\WinForms\AdoDotNet\AdoDotNet.Sln and contains these projects:

      * DataAdapter1 illustrates filling a PDP DataSet with a dynamic schema.
      * DataAdapter2 illustrates filling an MS DataSet with a previously created DataTable.
      * DataReader illustrates MoveFirst/MoveNext and populating a form in code.
      * StoredProc illustrates using StoredProcedure to implement Business Logic.
      * MultiLibraryGridDemo illustrates getting data into a DataGrid using different
        PickDP.NET libraries and their effect on display formatting. Includes 12 ways to retrieve
        data including ADO.NET DataAdapters and DataReaders using TableDirect.
      * InvoiceVB2 illustrates a number of issues and techniques, including parent/child
        relationships, Code Bound and Data Bound controls, DataReaders and DataAdapters, and
        reading PickDP DataSource information from the registry. The MDI parent and MDI children
        illustrate different functionality.

   The second solution is located in S:\Samples\WebDemos\AdoDotNet\PdpAdoDemo1.Sln and contains
   these projects:

      * PdpAdoClientVB (A WinForm client to the Web Service) Allows setting the connection string.
      * PdpAdoServerVB (The Web Service)
      * PdpWebClientVB (A WebForm client to the Web Service) Enhanced to exercise more of the API.
        
      Note that both PdpAdoClientVB and InvoiceVB2 make use of the classes and forms to read the
      PickDP.NET DataSource from the registry and allow the user to select either a custom or
      predefined DataSource.

 Pick Data Provider Class Library
   The Pick Data Provider Connector, Extensions and WebExtensions class
   libraries have been enhanced by adding usability features through new
   methods and properties. Also, support for non-persistent connections for
   windows and web applications is now available.

 Video Tutorials
   Video tutorials, including step-by-step instructions on how to create
   Pick Data Provider applications, have been provided.


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Activating

Upon initial installation, you are allowed 30 days to activate the Pick
Data Provider server and SDK.

After activating the server, it is highly recommended that users
activate their SDK at the same time. See Server Activation and SDK
Activation in the Pick Data Provider for Microsoft .NET Installation
Guide for instructions.