Getting Started
Connecting from RAD Studio
The CData FireDAC Components for Twitter implement the standard FireDAC classes and integrate Twitter into RAD Studio wizards. You can access the components from the RAD Studio Tool Palette and use the components alongside standard FireDAC classes like TFDQuery, TFDManager, and TFDConnection.
Connecting from Twitter
See Establishing a Connection to connect with the Data Explorer and FireDAC Connection Editor wizards.
RAD Studio Version Support
RAD Studio 10.4 (Sydney) and above are supported.
Twitter Version Support
The component models the behavior of version 1.1 of the Twitter REST API as bidirectional tables. A developer account is required to connect to Twitter APIs.Dependencies
CData FireDAC components require the 2010 version of the VC++ (x86/x64) redistributable package that matches the bitness of RAD Studio being used. You can download this from Microsoft:2010 VC++ Redistributable package download Note: The appropriate VC++ redistributable package requires distribution with the deployed application.
See Also
- See Creating VCL Applications to use the Form Designer to create a simple VCL application that queries Twitter.
- See Writing Data Access Code to create TFDConnection objects. See Connection Definitions for other ways to create connections, with TFDManager for example.
- See Using the FireDAC Components for Twitter-specific examples of executing prepared statements, discovering schemas, and writing other data access code.