Richard, Can these students contribute their work to Mono under a X11/MIT license? I would be more than happy to use a port of jTDS to C# in Mono System.Data.SqlClient instead of FreeTDS.
Thanks, Daniel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Torkar Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 10:34 AM To: Daniel Morgan Cc: Mono-List Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server database support inMono ADO.NET On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 15:59, 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. I have two students planning to port jTDS to C#. Why don't you take that approach instead? I talked with Rodrigo about this yesterday. /Richard _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
