Getting Started

Getting Started

This topic briefly explains some primary things you need to do to get started learning about and using the VisionCore Integrated Code Expansion (ICE).

Install and Run VisionCore

VisionCore operates all the components of the VisionCore API, developed using VisionCore Components. By becoming familiar with the VisionCore application, ICE developers will be able to see most of the capabilities of the VisionCore Components and their uses.

Required Files and Programs

You will need the following programs installed before you can use the VisionCore ICE Architecture

1.	VisionCore (the latest build)

2.	Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

3.	Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition or Higher (Express Edition not supported)

4.	Microsoft SQL Server 2005. VisionCore is designed to work with all the editions of SQL Server 2005 including the SQL Server 2005 Express edition.

5.	DXperience Professional 2007 controls from Developer Express (make sure the build number matches the one currently used in VisionCore)

6.	There might be some additional custom controls required depending on what you need to customize.

Note:

Since .NET is language-independent, you can use any language that supports the .NET platform. All example code in the VisionCore ICE kit includes a mix of Visual Basic .NET and C# versions, since these are the two languages most commonly used by .NET developers.

The design of the VisionCore Architecture

The Introduction section provides a conceptual overview of many of the aspects of the VisionCore design and implementation. This section will help you understand how to use the VisionCore components. The goal of this section is to provide you with a broad overview of the VisionCore components and how to use those components.

What You Can Do with the VisionCore ICE Architecture

The Customizing VisionCore section provides a general overview of ways to customize VisionCore, while the List of How-to Topics provides a detailed discussion of how to develop add-ins for VisionCore and of how to access VisionCore data from your applications outside of the VisionCore environment. Small code fragments that address common programming problems and patterns using the VisionCore can be found in the Components Usage Patterns section.

Open and Run a Sample Project

A number of sample projects, most of them with code in both VB.NET and C#, are included with the ICE Developer Kit. Information about these sample projects can be found in the Samples section. You can examine the source code, compile the projects, and run them to see various ways you can easily customize VisionCore to suite your needs.

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