This tutorial demonstrates how easy it is to write an Internet-Ready client using ASTA. The directions below will create a client on your machine. It will connect, over the Internet, to an AstaServer running in Camden, Maine.
Download our ASTA evaluation components and follow the ten steps below to get your first Internet-Ready Client/Server application up and running.
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Drop an AstaClientSocket |
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Drop an AstaClientDataSet |
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Drop a DataSource |
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Drop a DBGrid |
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Set the Address to 63.224.240.86 (not the 216.* address shown in the illustration), Set the ConnectionAction to DesignAddress |
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Set the DBGrid1.DataSource property to DataSource1 |
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Set the DataSource1.DataSet property to AstaClientDataSet1 |
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Double click to SQL property in order to start the SQL property editor (NOTE: This tutorial can be done without writing any SQL too). |
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Enter your SQL, SELECT * FROM CUSTOMER |
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Set the AstaClientDataSet1.Active property to True. Wait for half a second. |
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ASTA will give you design time population, over the Internet. Grin. |
All you have to do now is to run the project and you have created your first Internet-ready, thin client, multi-tier ASTA Application. Not bad, you didn't write a single line of code.
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