HomeUsing Apollo

Getting Started - Using Apollo

Download and install Apollo

After downloading and installing Apollo (Trial or Full edition) , Apollo 7 will be installed to C:\Program Files\Apollo7. Depending on your development environment, identify the sub-folder that contains the appropriate components. For example, C:\Program Files\Apollo7\VCL\D2010 contains the VCL components and packages needed for Delphi 2010, and C:\Program Files\Apollo7\NET\NET 3.5 contains the .NET Data Provider and components for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.

Architecture Diagrams

Visual diagrams provide a good overview of the various architectures and configurations that Apollo, and applications developed suing Apollo, support including the following:

Local data access diagrams File Share or LAN data access diagrams Web data access diagrams Client/Server data access diagrams

Getting started using the Apollo components

Use Apollo 7 components (.NET, VCL and Win32 components) to create Windows applications. By default, these applications use the Apollo embedded database engine (also know as the local engine), which consists of the SDE*.DLL files localed in C:\Program Files\Apollo7\Engine\Deploy. See the individual Apollo component sets for specific installation and getting started information:

• Using the .NET components with Visual Studio
• Using the VCL components with Borland BDS, Delphi and C++Builder
• Using the Win32 components with VB and ASP

Each of these Apollo components feature properties that allow you to change from connecting to the default local database engine (i.e. SDE*.DLL files) to remote data managed by Apollo Server over TCP/IP.

Free 2-User edition of Apollo Server

A free 2-User edition of the Apollo Server is included with Apollo 7. This free server supports 2 concurrent users accessing the same database. It is an ideal solution for building basic client/server applications, or for creating a client/server demo edition of your Apollo applications. This 2-User edition provides secure remote access to your DBF databases via the Internet. An unlimited user edition is available which removes the 2-user support restriction.