Announcing... 

COM-Gen 2000
1999 Q&D Software Development
Generate your business object and data object VB source code in seconds!!
Cut your development time by up to 90%!!
Works with the most ODBC data sources and OLE DB providers!!

COM-Gen 2000TM is a Visual Basic AddIn. With it, you can automatically 
generate your data objects in their entirety in a matter of a few 
seconds. COM-Gen 2000TM works with the most popular ODBC databases 
and creates clean, readable code, including all the supporting VB 
and SQL code necessary to insert, update, delete, and retrieve data. 
All code generated by COM-Gen 2000TM is guaranteed compilable, and to
work as advertised without modification.

COM-Gen 2000TM will even generate error handling code as well if you 
so desire. 

CONTENTS:

i)   System Requirements...
ii)  Installation Instructions...
iii) Join Our Mailing List(s)...
iv)  Bug Reports and suggestions...
v)   Known Issues...




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i) System Requirements: 

Visual Basic 6.0 - Service Pack 3 recommended, but not required. 
MDAC 2.1 - Included with VB6 SP3. For the lastest version, go 
           to http://www.microsoft.com/data. 
Disk Space - 2.5MB 
DCOM98 - Windows 95/98 users only. Not required on Windows NT systems. 

Please Note: When downloading COM-Gen 2000TM, users of the English 
             language version of VB can choose to download either a small 
             package with only the COM-Gen 2000TM program, or a larger 
             package which includes MDAC 2.1. Users of non-English language 
             versions of VB must download the smaller package, and then, 
             if you do not have MDAC 2.1 already on your machine, download 
             the MDAC 2.1 version for your particular language from 
             Microsoft at http://www.microsoft.com/data and install it prior
             to installing COM-Gen 2000.
 



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ii) Installation Instructions:

Step 1: Run the setup program included with this package. This will 
        install COM-Gen 2000 on your machine. If you downloaded the 
        larger package that includes MDAC 2.1, the setup program will 
        install that as well. 

        IMPORTANT: COM-Gen 2000TM requires MDAC 2.1 to work correctly. 
        If you do not have MDAC 2.1 installed, the program may appear 
        to run correctly, but will have trouble opening database connections.
        To ascertain whether or not you have MDAC 2.1 installed on your 
        machine, search for the file MDAC_TYP.EXE on your machine and check 
        the version by right-clicking on the file name in Windows Explorer. 
        If you downloaded our larger package which includes the English 
        language version of MDAC 2.1, the COM-Gen 2000TM setup routine will 
        also install MDAC 2.1. Otherwise, you must also download the MDAC 2.1 
        version for your particular language from Microsoft at 
        http://www.microsoft.com/data . MDAC 2.1 should be installed prior 
        to installing COM-Gen 2000.

 
Step 2: Run Visual Basic and install COM-Gen 2000 onto the VB Add-In 
        menu. (From the VB6 menu, click 'Add-Ins->Add-In Manager', then 
        choose COM-Gen 2000TM from the Add-In Manager's list of available 
        applications. Make sure that both the 'Loaded/Unloaded' checkbox 
        and the 'Load on Startup' checkbox in the Add-In Manager screen 
        are checked before you click the OK button. 




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iii) Join Our Mailing List(s): Top of Page 

We have two different mailing lists with two different purposes. You may
subscribe to one or both: 

COMGen2000: The COMGen2000 mailing list is a discussion forum in which 
            you can exchange questions, opinions, and ideas about the 
            COM-Gen 2000 program with other users and potential users.
            You can subscribe to the COMGen2000 list at
            http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/COMGen2000 .

COMGen2000Status: The COMGen2000Status mailing list is an announcement 
                  only list. This list will be used by us to inform members
                  of updates and important information regarding COM-Gen 2000.
                  Members may not post messages to this list.  You can 
                  subscribe to the COMGen2000Status list at 
                  http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/COMGen2000Status .

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iv) Bug Reports and Suggestions: Top of Page 

Please let us know about any problems you experience or any suggestions
you may have via our short bug report form at 
http://www.q-d.com/cgbug.htm .



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v) Known Issues: 

Issue: Due to some incompatibilities between ADO and the Oracle 8.0 ODBC 
       driver (the one that ships with Oracle), when connecting to a data 
       source using the Oracle 8.0 ODBC driver, only the first 8 characters 
       of the Data Source Name are returned via ADO. This causes COM-Gen 2000
       to generate a faulty connection string if your data source name is 
       longer than 8 characters. In addition, Primary Key fields are not 
       detected when using this driver, and must be indicated manually. 

Solution: Use Microsoft's ODBC driver for Oracle 8.0. The problem only 
          appears with Oracle's own driver. 


