The OpenEdge Hive

This is a beginning entry which it is hoped will turn into general documentation on ProDataSets.

Contributors are encouraged to create book pages in a structured fashion so that one can drill down into topics.

It is desired to create two documentation hierarchies.

One of these will be about the actual syntax and use, i.e., a hyperlinked set of pages corresponding to the reference manual, but organized to allow perceiving the high level structure and drilling down into details as needed. This should include extensive details on how the data-source and dataset object methods & attributes, a la what's there already.

The other will be task or problem oriented and will focus on code examples of how to use ProDataSets to accomplish particular goals. Some of these topics might include:*
* Different ways to marshal data into the PDS.
* Different ways to marshal data out of the PDS.
* The different ways of marshalling data in and out of a PDS can interact, with more examples.
* How to manage changes.
In addition to these generic categories, contributors should feel free to post any specific applications which they think illustrate how ProDataSets are used to handle any particular problem area.

We encourage you to think of this as documentation, i.e., the posting should include the code in the text so that the pages can be read like a manual, but may also offer a downloadable copy of the code as an attachment. Generally, it is recommended that content should be added as book pages so that it can be logically arranged and comments should be enabled so that feedback can be solicited.

* Tim Kuehn contributed to the ideas represented here.