UltraLite C++ application development

UltraLite C++ development involves use of a ULDatabaseManager object in your application.

Several design and development decisions need to be made when developing for Apple iOS or Mac OS X platforms.

UltraLite applications must connect to the database before performing operations on its data.

UltraLite applications can access table data by executing SQL statements or using the ULTable class.

UltraLite applications can access table data by executing SQL statements or using the ULTable class.

Transactions are started implicitly by the first statement to modify the database, and must be explicitly committed or rolled back.

You can programmatically retrieve result set or database structure descriptions. These descriptions are known as schema information, and this information is available through the UltraLite C API schema classes.

The UltraLite C++ API includes a ULError object that should be used to retrieve error information. Several methods in the API return a boolean value, indicating whether the method call was successful. In some instances, null is returned when an error occurs.

UltraLite applications can synchronize data with a central database. Synchronization requires the MobiLink synchronization software included with SQL Anywhere.

Release software resources when they are no longer being used to prevent the UltraLite database file from remaining in use for as long as the application has a connection to the database.

When building a C++ application that does not use the UltraLite engine, you can either link to a static UltraLite runtime library or, on Windows and Windows Mobile, you can link to an import library and load the UltraLite runtime code dynamically when the application starts.