Getting Started

This topic will give you some initial information about dRS and will help to get your environment ready to work with dRS.

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.NET Platform

The distribution comes as a zip archive. The contents need to be extracted to any folder before you start to use the dRS.

You can find the offline version of this documentation in /docs/reference folder.

The API documentation in located in /docs/api folder. 

 

db4o and dRS online documentation resources are located in the reference documentation

 

Requirements 

Java version

dRS is dependent on the JDK 5 version of db4o object database. You will also need a corresponding db4o version (compatible db4o and dRS have the same version number).
To use the Hibernate Replication functionality, the Hibernate core version 3.1 files are required. These files and their dependencies have been included in the /lib folder for your convenience. If you require more complicated Hibernate mapping configurations, you may wish to download the full Hibernate documentation from the Hibernate project website.
To run the provided build scripts dRS requires Apache Ant 1.6 or later.

.NET version 

dRS requires Microsoft .NET framework version 2.0 to work. A compatible version of db4o database should be used (compatible db4o and dRS have the same version number).

To work with the source code and examples you will need Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

Installation 

 

.NET Platform Installation

dRS engine comes as a dll. To use it in a development project, you only need to add the appropriate version of dRS to your project references. dRS version number corresponds to db4o version number, i.e dRS-6.0 will work with db4o-6.0.

Here is an example of how to add dRS to a Visual Studio 2005 project: