Before You Begin

This guide helps you to get started with Oracle AppWizard for Microsoft Visual C++.

Topics include the following:

• Prerequisites

 
• Intended Audience

 
• How This Guide Is Organized

 
• Documentation and Code Conventions Explained

 
• Documentation Library

 

Prerequisites

This guide assumes that you have a basic understanding of Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0.

Intended Audience

This guide is necessary for anyone who wants to use Oracle AppWizard for Microsoft Visual C++ release 8.1.5 for Windows NT and Windows 95/98.

How This Guide Is Organized

This guide is organized as follows:

Chapter 1, "Introduction"

Describes the main features of Oracle AppWizard for Microsoft Visual C++ and defines basic concepts that must be understood for the selections on Oracle AppWizard for Microsoft Visual C++ windows to make sense.

Chapter 2, "Creating a Starter Application"

A step-by-step description of how to use Oracle AppWizard for Microsoft Visual C++ to create an application skeleton.

Chapter 3, "Understanding Your Application's Code"

Describes the files and code underlying the application skeleton created by Oracle AppWizard for Microsoft Visual C++, making customization easier.

Chapter 4, "Tutorial"

Takes you through all the steps of creating a starter application with Oracle AppWizard for Microsoft Visual C++, using a business case as an example. After completing the tutorial, readers will gain a much fuller understanding of the real-life applications to which they can put Oracle AppWizard for Microsoft Visual C++.

Documentation and Code Conventions Explained

The following conventions are used in this guide.

Convention	Example	Meaning
All uppercase plain	ORACL.H	Used for directory names and file names.
Italic	Oracle SQL Reference	Indicates the titles of other guides.
Choose Start >	Choose Start > Programs > Oracle - HOME_NAME > Application Development > Oracle Objects for OLE Help	How to start a program.
HOME_NAME	Oracle - HOME_NAME	Represent the Oracle home name.
Symbols	period .  comma ,  hyphen -  semicolon ;  colon :  equal sign =  backslash \  single quote `  double quote "  parentheses ()	Symbols other than brackets and vertical bars must be entered in commands exactly as shown.

Documentation Library

This guide is part of a larger library of Oracle documentation. The Oracle documentation library consists of two types of documentation:

Documentation Type	Describes...
Operating system-specific	Installation, configuration, and use of Oracle products in a Windows NT or Windows 95/98 environment. Operating system-specific documents are occasionally referred to in the generic documentation set. These documents are easy to identify because they always mention their specific operating system in their title.
Generic	Oracle database, Oracle networking, and Application Programming Interface information that is uniform across all operating system platforms. The majority of documents in your documentation set belong to this category. While reading through the generic documentation set, you are occasionally asked to refer to your platform (or operating system) documentation for procedures specific to the Windows NT or Windows 95/98 operating systems.  To easily identify where these generic documentation references are described in your operating system documentation, see the index of this guide for the following entry:  generic documentation references  All generic documentation references described in this guide appear under this index entry.