This dialog identifies your component model database, if any. You open the dialog by selecting .
The following fields and commands are available:
| Fields | Component database name | The logical name for the database. |
| Auto-start | The setting (true or false) of the option to start the database server automatically when you launch Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge and stop it when you quit. | |
| Commands | New | Starts the Create Component Model Database wizard (available only when no model database is currently defined). |
| Remove | To delete the model database from disk, if it is local to your machine, and disassociate it from your component models. | |
| Import | To read settings for a remote database from an exported XML file and apply them for use with your projects, replacing any settings currently in use. | |
| Export | To create an XML file containing your current database settings, allowing other users to import the file and apply the same settings for a shared database. | |
| OK | To save all current values and close the Preferences dialog. | |
| Cancel | To close the Preferences dialog without saving any changes. | |