db4o tutorial

Welcome db4o is the native Java, .NET and Mono open source object database. This documentation and tutorial is intended to get you started with db4o and to be a reliablecompanion while you develop with db4o. Before you start, please make sure that you have downloadedthe latest db4o distribution from the db4objects website. You are invited to join the db4o community in the public db4o newsgroup at news://news.db4odev.com/db4o.users and to ask for help at any time. A searchable archive ofprevious postings is available here . You may also find the db4o knowledgebase helpful for keywordsearches. The db4o .NET distribution comes as one MSI installer file, db4o-4.5-net.msi. After you run theinstaller, you get the following directory structure: This tutorial comes in multiple versions. Make sure that you use the right one for the right purpose. db4o-4.5/doc/tutorial/db4o-tutorial.exe This is the interactive tutorial application for .NET. Examples can be run "live" against a db4o databasefrom within the application. db4o-4.5/doc/tutorial/db4o-4.5-tutorial.pdf The PDF version of the tutorial allows best fulltext search capabilities. Java, .NET and Mono db4o is available for Java, for .NET and for Mono. This tutorial was written for .NET. The structure ofthe other distributions may be considerably different, so please use the tutorial for the version that you plan to experiment with first. 1. First Glance Before diving ...