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VistaDB 2.1 VCL Edition

2.1 is no longer sold or supported - these pages are for reference purposes only. VistaDB 3.x should be used for all new development.

Features

• Create Win32 applications
• BDE not required
• Includes Delphi VCL source code to components which can be fully embedded into your VCL applications
• TDataset compatible VCL components for Delphi/C++Builder 5,6,7,2005,2006
• Fully compatible with VCL data aware controls and 3rd party components
• Easily scalable from embedded to client/server configuration with little code changes
• Full ability to create and manage VistaDB .VDB databases
• Royalty free unlimited distribution
• More robust than Paradox .DB and dBASE databases
• Over 30x smaller than the BDE (500KB vs 20MB)

Includes

• VistaDB embedded engine (600KB file) with royalty free deployment
• 2-User VistaDB Server with royalty free deployment
• Data Builder Utility for creating and managing databases
• Data Migration Wizard for migrating databases to VistaDB
• Demo and samples with full source code
• Help files

Supported Borland Languages

• Delphi
• C++Builder

Supported Platforms

• Win32

Supported IDEs

• Delphi 5,6,7,2005,2006 
• C++Builder 5,6 

Components

• TDataSet Components
  •   TVDBDatabase
    Works like TDatabase. Connects to a .VDB database and allows you to manage database level settings such as encryption.
  •   TVDBTable
    Works much like TTable. Connects to VistaDB tables allowing you to add, delete, update, filter and find data, along with other table related operations. TVDBTable works with TDatasource and is fully compatible with data aware components.
  •   TVDBQuery
    Works much like TQuery. Runs SQL-92 queries and commands to manage data in a VistaDB database. The Query object supports all the common SQL statements such as SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and more. TVDBQuery works with TDatasource and is fully compatible with data aware components.
• Direct Data Access™ Objects
  •   TVDBDirect
    Unique to VistaDB. It works much like TVDBTable to provide direct data access to VistaDB tables without the TDataSource compatibility overhead required by TVDBTable or TTable. TVDBDirect provides high speed direct table access that is on average 50% to 100% faster than TVDBTable.

IDE Integration

VistaDB VCL components in Delphi 2005 IDE VistaDB VCL components in Delphi 7 IDE

Delphi 5,6,7,2005,2006 and C++Builder 5,6 Fully integrated into the Delphi 2005. Simply drag-n-drop the VistaDB components onto your forms or datamodules, set some properties and connect to the standard TDatasource component.

BDE Replacement

As most Delphi and C++Builder developers know, the BDE is an old and awkward collection of database technologies that performs various unrelated functions including third party database connectivity and native database management of legacy dBASE and Paradox database files. This collection of unrelated functionality adds needless overhead to your applications and is the source of many configuration, deployment and BDE versioning issues -- all of which can be avoided by using VistaDB. Among other reasons to avoid developing applications that use the BDE is the fact that Borland has deprecated the BDE and has not issued updates to the BDE since 1999. In summary, there is no future in using the BDE..

TDataset Compatible

VistaDB VCL Edition is designed for Borland Delphi 5, 6, 7, 2005, 2006 and C++Builder 5, 6 developers building VCL-based Win32 applications. VistaDB features a set of native VCL components that are fully compatible with Borland's TDataset architecture, which means VistaDB is fully compatible with all data aware components including TDBGrid, TDBEdit etc. VistaDB is also compatible with all popular third party products such as InfoPower, RAVE, DevExpress, and more.