On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:59:25AM -0400, Daniel Morgan wrote: > Hey, > > Currently, ADO.NET in Mono does not support Sybase nor Microsoft SQL Server. > Unless, you want to use System.Data.Odbc with unixODBC with FreeTDS on > Linux, System.Data.OleDb with libgda with FreeTDS on Linux, or with the > native ODBC support and MDAC on Windows. However, this adds a lot of > dependencies, configurations, and another layer for data to have to travel > degrading performance. > > I would like to create a provider for Microsoft SQL Server in > System.Data.SqlClient and for Sybase in Mono.Data.SybaseClient. It will use > the native FreeTDS libraries to provide this capability. In order to use > FreeTDS, we will need to create C# bindings to FreeTDS. > > [...] > > The best approach is to create a pure managed provider in C#, but who has > the time to implement the TDS protocol in C#? In the meantime, we can use > the native FreeTDS libraries for this. > There is jTDS at http://www.freetds.org/ but that involves time porting from > Java/JFC/JDBC to the C#/.NET/ADO.NET stuff. > > [...] > > The importance for FreeTDS and Mono running on Windows is that a developer > may have only one machine (me) to develop Mono, and Microsoft SQL Server > only runs on Windows. So, the development would have to be done on Windows. > > Anybody willing to help?
At one point in the past I looked at creating a libgda provider for FreeTDS. Unfortunately, I ran out of time :). I would like to help create a provider for FreeTDS in mono. I'm not sure that going through libgda is the correct approach though. I do have Windows and Microsoft SQL Server, however I don't see why developing a SQL Server provider requires development to be done on Windows. It would require that the developer have SQL Server available on a network, but that's all. I haven't looked at the FreeTDS source in a while, so I don't know how difficult it would be to implement a native provider in C#. Since I'm trying to get back into mono development, I would be interested in helping out. -- Tim Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [43.28 N 80.31 W] BMath, Honours Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." -- J.K. Galbraith _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
