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Chris,
I myself am learning about all this: C#, CLR,
mono, and libgda/gnome-db. It's rather exciting!
What is the difference between libgda and
gnome-db?
Libgda is a non-GUI data access for
Linux/Unix. Hence its name GDA stands for GNU Data Access.
It does not depend on gnome, but it does depend on
glib, ORBit, bonobo, GConf, and the native database libraries.
The use of ORBit and Bonobo in libgda allow it to
be used in other languages besides C.
Libgda does support databases that work on other
platforms, such as, Oracle. If there isn't a provider for your database,
libgda provides the infrastructure to create your own.
Libgda 0.2.9x is for Glib 1.x uses a similar
concept that ADO uses while Libgda 0.8.x is for Glib 2.x uses a similar
approach that ADO.NET uses. I'm not sure on the later libgda, but I am
certain on the earlier libgda. I have programmed in ADO and libgda 0.2.95,
and I think libgda compliments ADO very well. It is easy to use even
though libgda is written in C.
Gnome-DB is the GUI data access for
Linux/Unix. It uses Gnome and Libgda.
Gnome-DB 0.2.9x uses Gnome 1.x and libgda 0.2.9x
while Gnome-DB 0.8.x uses Gnome 2.x and libgda 0.8.x.
I haven't played with the Gnome-DB 0.8.x that is
for Gnome2, but I have played with Gnome-DB 0.2.9x for Gnome1.x, and it has many
data bound controls (or in gtk-speak, many data bound widgets).
As for creating System.Data.Gda, I don't know
if anyone else has started working on getting GDA to work in mono C#.
I don't want to step on any toes. Is anybody? If not, does
anybody have any objections to creating System.Data.Gda?
Thanks,
-= Daniel
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Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 6:16
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Subject: Re: [Mono-list]
System.Data
Daniel,
It would be great to have your assistance.
I have been working on the System.Data namespace, and that is coming along
great. However, I do not know enough to write any of the managed
providers (System.Data.OleDB, System.Data.SqlClient, etc..)
I'm not familiar with libgda, but briefly looking
at the api, I suppose writing System.Data.Gda as a wrapper would work fine, as
well as System.Data.GnomeDB.
What are the differences between GnomeDB and
libgda?
My comments earlier about GnomeDB not fitting
into the new ADO.Net were somewhat of a misunderstanding. On the Mono
website, it says that we could just write a wrapper to GnomeDB. This
was only meant as creating a System.Data.GnomeDB namespace, where as I thought
it meant System.Data. This confussion was due to my lack of knowledge
about GnomeDB.
On the topic of managed providers, one of the
things I would really like to see is, someone write (if possible) the
SqlClient and OleDB providers. This hopefully would allow linux boxes to
talk to MS SQL Server, and would open up new web application markets. I
know alot of companies that use Win2k and IIS, only because they don't like
the Databases that are available on Linux, and Linux doesnt talk to MS SQL
Server. I believe that's correct anyway.
Well, once again, System.Data.Gda sounds like a
good idea to me. I'll be watching the cvs tree for your
code.
Thanks,
Chris Podurgiel
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 2:05
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Subject: Re: [Mono-list]
System.Data
Hello Chris,
I am interested in working in the System.Data
namespace. Since Gnome-DB doesn't exactly fit into ADO.NET, couldn't
we at least create a namespace to use libgda through C#? Such as,
System.Data.Gda?
I don't know much about C# nor ADO.NET, but I
have been playing with libgda 0.2.9x on Linux, and I like what I've seen so
far. I haven't played with the Gnome2 version of libgda which is
libgda 0.8.x.
I have seen the framework for System.Data in
the mcs classes.
Would you like any help?
Thank you,
Daniel
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