## db4o documentation and tutorial

# Welcome

db4o is the native Java, .NET and Mono open source object database.
This documentation and tutorial is intended to get you started with db4o and to be a reliable companion while you develop with db4o. Before you start, please make sure that you have downloaded the latest db4o distribution from the db4objects website.
You are invited to join the db4o community in the public db4o forums to ask for help at any time. You may also find the db4o knowledgebase helpful for keyword searches.
Java, .NET and Mono
db4o is available for Java, for .NET and for Mono. This tutorial was written for .NET . The structure of the other distributions may be considerably different, so please use the tutorial for the version that you plan to experiment with first.

# Download Contents

The db4o .NET distribution comes as one MSI installer file, db4o-5.0-net.msi. After you run the installer, you get the following directory structure:
db4o-5.0/doc/tutorial/db4o-tutorial.exe
This is the interactive tutorial application for .NET. Examples can be run "live" against a db4o database from within the application.
db4o-5.0/doc/tutorial/db4o-5.0-tutorial.pdf
The PDF version of the tutorial allows best fulltext search capabilities.
db4o-5.0/doc/api/db4o.chm
The API documentation for db4o is supplied as a compiled Help file. While you read through the rest of this tutorial, it may be helpful to look into the API documentation occasionaly.
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