Re: [Banshee-List] ADO.net and ECMA

[Daniel Hughes <trampster gmail com>]

Mono needs a replacement / alternative to ADO.net

Given the recent concern over mono implementations of .net libraries and the Microsoft community promise which only covers implementations of the ECMA standards.

Mono needs alternatives to all libraries not covered by the ECMA standards and the community promise. For example instead of using win forms we can use GTK#.

However their does not seem to by any mono alternative to ADO.net.

That is we need a framework to abstract connections and communications with SQL databases. One that allows the underlying database to be swapped out with little or no effort.

What do people think, is this a good idea.

Cheers,
Daniel

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:54 PM, trampster<trampster gmail com> wrote:
> Can someone please explain either.
> 1. why using Mono.Data.Sqlite is not depending on ADO.net
> 2. or that Banshee does depend on ADO.net, and explain why this doesn't
> matter.

It does appear that Mono.Data.Sqlite implements the ADO.NET interface
in addition to generally binding SQLite.  In Banshee we only use the
most basic part of that API - opening a connection, executing queries,
returning results, so changing Hyena.Data.Sqlite to use a new or
extracted SQLite binding/interface will not be difficult.

Gabriel

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