Is Valentina 2 for Director Backward compatible?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 3/9/06 9:40 PM, "Tatyana Gutierrez" <tgutierrez at fls-inc.com> wrote:

Hi Tatyana, 
 
> I have some more questions from my developer.
> 
> Can you provide us with information about the API differences, or is it
> in some documentation you could point us to?

For V4MD there is no such list.
You can look into V4RB_Reference.pdf, to see e.g. SQL changes.

> If the _basic_ functionality of Val2 is unchanged from Val1 (example:
> there is a function in both you can call to execute a SQL query) but the
> name of that function has changed in Val2, then perhaps finding and
> updating those function calls in our Director code isn't too much of a
> hassle. On the other hand if Val2 API and function is fundamentally
> changed from Val1 then we have a problem.

I think main picture of logic is similar.

Major change is how you do SQL SELECT query,
In v1 you create new Vcursor Xtra, now you use db.SqlSelect()


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Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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