First Steps
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After the installation procedure as described in readme.txt the component palette of your Delphi IDE contains an additional page called TurboDB and the contents of your online-help includes the TurboDB Reference book.

A good point to start is the demo application included with your TurboDB Components package. It is to be found in the samples subdirectory of your installation folder. Just open the Delphi project file tdbdemo.dpr within the IDE and run it. Perhaps you have to adjust the database names of the TurboDB tables using the object inspector.

When you decide to start with your own project, you will need to create appropriate database tables. The TurboDB Components package includes a console program called tdbwkb for this and related tasks. It is located in the windows\bin subdirectory of your installation folder. There is a help topic for TurboDB Workbench in the online help (see Additional Tools/TurboDB Workbench). The tool itself shows a list of available commands when you type help at the tdbwkb prompt.

To start a new Delphi/Kylix project using TurboDB components you must:
1.Create a new project in the Delphi/Kylix IDE.  
2.Add a TTdbTable component to your form for each database table you need.  
3.Open the component menu of each TTdbTable component and select Create Table to define the table schema.  
4.Set the Active property of the TTdbTable component to true, to open the database table.  
5.Be sure to have the windows\lib? or linux/lib? subdirectory of your TurboDB installation folder included in the Delphi or Kylix search path.  
 
Use TurboDB Components as you are used to from the BDE database components. This online help documents each method and each property available with TurboDB Components.