Make sure you have compiled the Framework source code first. The distribution archive only contains source code (for both the AtomsFramework and the Tutorial project)
If you only have Visual Studio .NET 2002 you will have to create a new solution and project and add the .vb files manually.
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2003-10-26
Thanks for your response. I actually got it working shortly after I posted. But now I have another question. I have been working through the tutorial, and am down to creating the XML mappings, and I understand everything until setting up the associations.
The association tag has an attribute of Target that represents "The name of the attribute to store the resultant object(s) in." This is where I'm confused. What do these objects "result" from? Also, in the XML mapping that corresponds to the tutorial, the object names given Target do not appear to match any defined class. For example, the first association listed, from COrderHeader to CCustomer has a target of "Customer". Is this the same as CCustomer? I should note that I'm not at all familiar with VB in any of it's flavors, so if the C prefix is a special syntax notation or something like that, I'm clueless. Thanks for your help.
I'm trying to get this running for a software development class. We were given the choice of "build or buy", and your Framework looks like an excellent tool, so I went with that. Now I'm just trying to figure out how to use it. I quickly found out that I didn't understand the whole concept of a persistence framework as well as I thought! :)
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Your tutorial says to add a reference to the Atoms Framework by browsing to the AtomsFramework.dll. I cannot find this file.
Hi Dave,
Make sure you have compiled the Framework source code first. The distribution archive only contains source code (for both the AtomsFramework and the Tutorial project)
If you only have Visual Studio .NET 2002 you will have to create a new solution and project and add the .vb files manually.
Thanks for your response. I actually got it working shortly after I posted. But now I have another question. I have been working through the tutorial, and am down to creating the XML mappings, and I understand everything until setting up the associations.
The association tag has an attribute of Target that represents "The name of the attribute to store the resultant object(s) in." This is where I'm confused. What do these objects "result" from? Also, in the XML mapping that corresponds to the tutorial, the object names given Target do not appear to match any defined class. For example, the first association listed, from COrderHeader to CCustomer has a target of "Customer". Is this the same as CCustomer? I should note that I'm not at all familiar with VB in any of it's flavors, so if the C prefix is a special syntax notation or something like that, I'm clueless. Thanks for your help.
I'm trying to get this running for a software development class. We were given the choice of "build or buy", and your Framework looks like an excellent tool, so I went with that. Now I'm just trying to figure out how to use it. I quickly found out that I didn't understand the whole concept of a persistence framework as well as I thought! :)