If one is already a database geek then I recommend the O'Reilly "ADO .NET in a nutshell" book. Helped me a lot. Its virtue is it's vice: short and sweet (compared to so many of the 1,000+ page behemoths).
The object model is rich, useful, and completely different that anything that came before. (ADO or RDO or DAO to name the Microsoft data access models). -----Original Message----- From: Uffe Kousgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 1:37 PM To: Mapinfo-L Subject: Re: MI-L : ADO.NET and Mapinfo and PostGIS ? Search on ADO .NET and you will find plenty. To put it short: It is the data access layer on the .NET platform. Regards Uffe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Havermale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ian Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Bill Thoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "digeteca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 10:30 PM Subject: RE: MI - L : ADO.NET and Mapinfo and PostGIS ? I was wondering if you might extend my reach a bit. I just tried to google on "ADO.NET" and came up no info of any sort. I must be missing something? Just what is ADO.NET? MidNight Mapper neil -----Original Message----- From: Ian Erickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 2:39 AM To: Bill Thoen Cc: digeteca; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MI - L : Mapinfo and PostGIS ? Presumably, this is where the extendability of the .NET framework and the forthcoming version of MapInfo Pro "may" excel. Because the underlying engine behind the MapInfo Table data source is now ADO.NET, and if the folks at MapInfo have exposed the classes that are necessary, you could "in theory" write your own data provider that utililized the Postgis data source. I say "may" because I do not know if this truly possible, and the folks at MapInfo would be better at answering whether or not I've simply bought into marketing "spin" or rather a new capability does exist in writing custom data provider classes. So MapInfo folks, can this be done? Are there a sifficient amount of classes exposed as part of the MapInfo .NET namespace to accomodate such a thing? Ian Erickson AnalyGIS, LLC Gold Canyon, AZ 85218 http://www.analygis.com/ tel: 480.677.6260 fax: 480.677.6261 cell: 480.221.7173 Bill Thoen wrote: >On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, digeteca wrote: > > > >>Does Mapinfo can manipulate PostGIS spatial data ? >> >> > >Not directly as far as I know, but I suppose if you can connect to a >PostgreSQL/PostGIS data source via ODBC, you might be able to do something >with the data using a MapBasic application. > >- Bill Thoen > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Message number: 13599 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 13600 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 13602 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 13604 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 13605
