On 11/19/07, André Knappstein, Controlling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jiri,
> all of that sounds VERY good to me. If the time for implementing these
> changes can be spared this will be a big help for a lot of people.
During sunday I was thinking about this a little bit more. Maybe (not
tested yet) it wouldn't be difficult to create small application, that
will list GAC for assembly (version, signature, ...), dtect OS version
and then ask for VS stuff and then generates right *.reg file.
If this will be "10 lines" app. maybe we can create it. But just thinking loud.
> About "developers" and their abilities: the world is not just black and
> white but has a lot of shades between. I would not call myself a
> "real" developer and especially I do not have time to learn about all
> new things at once.
> But I wrote quite a big application, now half based on Firebird and
> already 5% written in C#. And the income of about 50 employees depends
> on that. So I am also a bit more than a hobbyist.
Yes I know. But IMO if you're able to read documentation, create some
app. you're able to read readme file, do simple steps and (maybe)
subscribe to list and ask about problems (or use private mail).
And these steps should be as friendly as possible.
> I always demonstrate in my workshops how to use ODBC in the beginning,
> and once the attendees understood ADO.net principles, they do not need
> DDEX anyway.
Yes, if you have some BLL with objects and collections in app. the
DDEX isn't required so much. But sometimes, the DDEX can help. OTOH
without DDEX the provider for FB wil be working, will be good for
application development, but there's a lost of people, that need/use
DDEX (and maybe writing reviews for FB and Firebird's additional
tools) so it's good, that we have it.
> But those who do not listen to me are already re-converting their just
> converted-to-Firebird applications over to MSSQL just because it's too
> complicated to install the designtime support for the FB provider.
Yes, exactly. So that, I'm thinking about simplyfing the installation
(or better to say orientation in installation) as much as we can. Or
maybe making it more developer friendly.
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Jiri {x2} Cincura (Microsoft Student Partner)
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