In this tutorial you learn how to get the data for your Kanzi application from a data source. Use data sources to separate the user interface from the application data and to remove the dependencies between a Kanzi Studio project and the application code which define the Kanzi application.
Kanzi allows you to define the format and structure of your data source by defining a Kanzi Engine data source plugin. In this tutorial you learn how to define an XML data source and how to use the data from that data source in a Kanzi Studio project to provide the data to a Kanzi application.
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Before you start this tutorial, make sure you have your Kanzi development environment set up. You need to:
See Installing Kanzi.
This tutorial assumes you understand the basics of working with Kanzi Studio. The best entry points for getting familiar with Kanzi Studio are:
