dbI 2.0: Sample Application will be available!

OTK Custom dbInstaller 2.0 is targeted to be released on 1st December 2007. Another good news is, a sample application will be made available to those who downloaded and installed OTK Custom dbInstaller 2.0 Free Demo. The first objective of this sample application is to give the developers a quick look at how dbI can do for them and how it can perform. The second objective is to allow the developers to quickly get started with dbI 2.0 in getting their application installer delivered.

The following describes how the sample application helps to achieve these two objectives:

• After installing dbI 2.0, there will be a shortcut available at Start menu pointing to otkdbi_SampleSetup.msi.
• The core purpose of otkdbi_SampleSetup.msi setup package to demonstrate to the developers how the standard Windows Installer is going to call the dbI wizard dialog in helping this sample application to install its SQL Server database.
• After completing the installation, a new program group called Sample Application will be created under OTK Custom dbInstaller at the Start menu. This new program group contains the following shortcuts:
  
  - OTK Custom dbInstaller Sample Application. This will launch the sample application as shown in the above screenshot, which allows you to test the connection from this sample application to its database, view the connection string updated by dbI, view the sample SQL script, open the sample setup project folder and lots more.
  
  - Open Sample Setup Project Folder. This shortcut allows you to open the sample setup project folder, giving you an option to extract the project source code. This sample source code will be the most effective tool for you to quickly incorporate dbI 2.0 into your application setup project.
  
  - Open otkdbi.exe.config. This will let you quickly open and inspect how the otkdbi.exe.config was being configured for the sample application to run in demonstrated behaviour.

We hope that this sample application will provide a great database-driven application pakacging experience to you.