1.The purpose of ASADAC:
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ASADAC allows the Delphi developer to create applications with direct
access to Sybase SQL Anywhere DB without BDE, ODBC, SQL Links or Sybase
OpenClient.

2. About the program:
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ASADAC allows you to avoid creating an incredible machine like
Application--BDE--ODBC--SQL Anywhere and create your solution as
Application--SQL Anywhere.

ASADAC ver. 2.0 supports Borland Delphi 4 & 5 and Sybase Adaptive Server
Anywhere (SQL Anywhere) 5.x, 6.x, 7.x.

Trial version of ASADAC allows to develop and debug client applications
with Sybase SQL Anywhere installed on the same workstation for unrestricted
time.

3. Features: 
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Interface:          BDE-like, migration friendly:
                    TASADatabase = TDatabase,
                    TASAQuery = TQuery,
                    TASATable = TTable,
                    TASAStoredProc = TStoredProc,
                    TASAUpdateSQL = TUpdateSQL; 

BLOBs:              Yes, BLOBs is supported correctly; 

StoredProc:         Supported in query and TASAStoredProc.
                    Stored procedures with variable result set
                    and stored procedures with raiserrors is supported
                    correctly; 

ShowPlan:           Yes, you can check query plan before query executing
                    in design time; 

OpenClient:         Is not required. ASADAC based on ESQL/API;
 
Delphi:             Delphi Standard ($99.95) is enough. Versions 4 and 5
                    is supported.

Trial restrictions: SQL Anywhere installed on developer's workstation.  


4. The status of the program:
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Shareware.


5. The distribution status of the program:
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Freely distributable.


6. How to contact the authors in the event of questions or problems:
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WWW: http://www.microolap.com
E-mail: asadac@microolap.com, info@microolap.com


7. How to install ASADAC.
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- Before ASADAC NEW package installing you have to DEINSTALL old version!
- In Component menu item choose subitem Install Packages...;
- In Project options dialog, listbox Design Packages select ASA Data Access
  Components and press Remove button.
- All other questions answer Yes.
 


7.1.  Installing of ASADAC trial version or registered version without sources:
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Unzip file to any location you prefer. After extraction you will have an
ASADAC directory with the following structure:

ASADAC\ 
      Delphi4 
      Delphi5 
      Help 
      license.txt 
      readme.txt (this file) 

7.2. Installing of ASADAC registered version with sources:
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Unzip file to any location you prefer. After extraction you will have an
ASADAC directory with the following structure:

ASADAC\ 
      Help 
      Source 
      Help 
      license.txt 
      readme.txt (this file) 

7.3. Installing the Packages into Delphi.
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The component binaries is placed into your compiler-named directory.
To install the ASADAC component, locate the Delphi design-time package
ASADAC.BPL and install it into your environment from
Component | Install Package, followed by Add.

In addition you also need to add the compiler-named directory to either
your project search path or your library path.

7.4. Instaling the Package into Delphi (Registered version)
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The component source code is placed into your compiler-named directory.
To install the ASADAC component, locate Delphi package source file ASADAC.dpk
and install it into your environment, from File|Open select type *.dpk,
followed by Install.

ASADAC requires ASA (SQL Anywhere) libraries (one for each version) to be
installed. Also, you need to include unit DsgnIntf from ToolsAPI.


8. How to buy ASADAC:
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Direct URLs to secure ordering pages on ShareIT!, famous worldwide
payment processing service:

Single user license, without sources, $169,95
https://secure.element5.com/register.html?productid=135624&language=English

Single user license, with sources, $499,95
https://secure.element5.com/register.html?productid=135709&language=English

Site license, without sources, $459,95
https://secure.element5.com/register.html?productid=135710&language=English

Site license, with sources, $1349,95
https://secure.element5.com/register.html?productid=135711&language=English


Or e-mail sales@microolap.com for invoice.
