[Mono-list] Mono and ADO.Net

2004-06-02 Thread Parviz
We are looking at developing in Windows and taking it toUnix with Mono. We have heard rumors that ADO.Net and windows forms are patented by MS and will not be avialable in Mono. First, is this true and second is there a different solution? Thanks Parviz

Re: [Mono-list] Mono and ADO.Net

2004-06-02 Thread Gregory Junker
Best I can tell, Windows Forms are done up in GTK# under Mono. ADO.Net is widely supported, and most major database systems have providers written (ByteFX for MySQL, etc). Works just fine, and the legal issue, AFAIK, is, according to Miguel, far overblown. There are several recent threads on that

Re: [Mono-list] Mono and ADO.Net

2004-06-02 Thread Cory Nelson
Windows.Forms uses Winelib, GTK# is a seperate package. Afaik, GTK# is more reliable than Windows.Forms right now. On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:39:45 -0400, Gregory Junker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best I can tell, Windows Forms are done up in GTK# under Mono. ADO.Net is widely supported, and most

Re: [Mono-list] Mono and ADO.Net

2004-06-02 Thread Gregory Junker
Shows you how much Windows Forms development I do. ;) Greg - Original Message - From: Cory Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Parviz [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 4:58 PM Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Mono and ADO.Net Windows.Forms