On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 09:52 -0800, Sharique wrote:
> While working with mono (on linux specilly), do I still need to
> download dblinq ?

Maybe.

> If yes, then is there any plan for dblinq to be included in mono.

DbLinq is included in mono 2.6+, but ONLY to implement
System.Data.Linq.dll.  This means that you're limited to the
System.Data.Linq API, and not any DbLinq extensions.

The theory was that you could still get Mono's System.Data.Linq to
communicate with non-SQL Server databases by using special parameters in
the connection string (e.g. the DbLinqProvider value [0]), but recent
bugs indicate that this approach doesn't work with PostgreSQL, as they
throw an error on all unrecognized values.

Thus, the easier solution is to use DbLinq, unless you need to use SQL
Server or SQLite+Mono.Data.Sqlite (as the latter doesn't error out on
unrecognized connection string values).

If you need to use a DbLinq extended API, then you'll need to use DbLinq
anyway.

 - Jon

[0] http://www.jprl.com/Blog/archive/development/mono/2009/Mar-12.html


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