DataBlade Developers Kit User's Guide Introduction

This section lists resources that contain information that is supplemental to this guide.

The DataBlade Module Development Overview provides a topic-to-title and title-to-topic reference for the following related Informix documentation:

• Extending Informix Dynamic Server 2000
• Informix Guide to SQL: Reference
• DataBlade API Programmer's Manual
• Informix ESQL/C Programmer's Manual
• Administrator's Guide for Informix Dynamic Server 2000
• DataBlade Module Installation and Registration Guide
• Creating UDRs in Java
• Informix JDBC Driver Programmer's Guide

For information on ActiveX and COM, consider the following books:

• ActiveX Controls Inside Out, Second Edition, by Adam Denning (Microsoft Press, 1997)
• Essential COM, by Don Box (Addison-Wesley, 1998)
• Inside COM, by Dale Rogerson (Microsoft Press, 1997)

The Informix Developer Network Web site contains numerous white papers, code examples, and tips for creating DataBlade modules:

http://www.informix.com/idn

The DataBlade Developers Kit includes:

• on-line help.
• the DataBlade Developers Kit InfoShelf.
• on-line manuals.
• release notes and documentation notes.

The BladeSmith, BladePack, and BladeManager graphical user interfaces include context-sensitive help that provides overview and detailed reference information for these programs.

The DataBlade Developers Kit InfoShelf provides this manual and the following information in HTML format:

• The DataBlade Developers Kit Tutorial
• A document that describes the example DataBlade modules included with the DataBlade Developers Kit
• A reference library that contains the following manuals:
• DataBlade Module Development Overview
• DataBlade Module Installation and Registration Guide
• DataBlade API Programmer's Manual
• DataBlade Developers Kit User's Guide
• Extending Informix Dynamic Server 2000
• Informix Guide to SQL: Reference
• Informix Guide to SQL: Syntax
• Informix Guide to SQL: Tutorial
• Creating UDRs in Java
• Informix JDBC Driver Programmer's Guide
• Informix GLS Programmer's Manual
• Informix Guide to GLS Functionality
• Informix ESQL/C Programmer's Manual
• A master index that contains the merged index entries of all the books listed here. The index entries provide links into the HTML versions of the manuals included in the InfoShelf.

The DataBlade Developers Kit InfoShelf can be launched from the BladeSmith Help menu or started independently from the Informix program group.

All the DataBlade Developers Kit manuals are also provided on the Answers OnLine CD-ROM in Adobe PDF format so that you can view and search for information on-line. For searches, you can specify a word or phrase and specify which manuals you want to search. You can also place electronic annotations and bookmarks on pages of particular interest to you. The pages you view and print from the on-line manuals on the CD have the same layout and design as the printed manuals.

The following on-line release notes and documentation notes, which you can access by clicking their icons in the Informix program group, supplement the information provided in this manual.

These files are located in the %INFORMIXDIR%\release directory under the subdirectory for your locale. Please examine these files because they contain vital information about application and performance issues.

These files are also located on the Informix Installation Resource Web page at http://www.informix.com/informix/resource.