----- Original Message ----- From: "Rodrigo Moya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Miguel de Icaza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Marsh, Drew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mono List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 7:14 PM Subject: RE: [Mono-list] .NET version 1.1 and 2.0
> On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 22:18, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > > * ADO.NET: The database guys should chime in with their > > comments, I am not a DB person, and I am passing along what > > people who have built these systems before told me. > > > the biggest problem in ADO.NET I see myself is the impossibility of using it as > a generic database access layer. That is, to create a connection, you have to > know in advance the DB server/API you are going to use, which is ok for some > cases but not for generic database access. > > What I miss is something along the way the driver manager in JDBC, which allows > to activate a driver via an identifier: > I've not looked at it, but does this http://abstractadonet.sourceforge.net/ help? _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
