Of course it's nonsense, absolutely. But that does not mean that it does not happen... there are creepy things out there... trust me :-)
Actually I do know quite a lot of people (small ISVs) who will install the full packages of EVERYTHING on EVERY machine, just to make very very sure all they need is there... > Considering the non-love DDEX has in Visual Studio, I think it will > either die in future versions of VS or it will be deprecated > (replaced). Not so soon, I think. And just now by creating this full installer you have opened the Firebird door for some who in any other case would have considered nothing else than MSSQL or Access. I do know a lot of ISVs who would want to stick with Firebird, not touching MSSQL & Co, and recently they are seriously thinking to use XDev as their next toolset. This happened directly after XDev announced Firebird support for their current product release. XDev is a RAD library creating JAVA code. XDev has mimicked something like ADO.net, they call it "virtual table store". I actually think that Java and JRE is not bad, but C# and .net is much much better. Also, it is much better to use a stable ADO.net than any mimicked "virtual table store" clone. Needless to say that the XDev guys have several problems with the special architecture of Firebird MGA. Those people now do have a new option, if they really really really want to use RAD tools for small projects. EF is too complicated for most. But using the DDEX provider they can use C# instead of XDev. It probably was a small step for you, but you opened one or the other door quite wide. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 _______________________________________________ Firebird-net-provider mailing list Firebird-net-provider@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-net-provider
