On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 16:58, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 16:34, Richard Torkar wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 15:59, Daniel Morgan wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > Currently, ADO.NET in Mono does not support Sybase nor Microsoft SQL Server. > > > Unless, you want to use System.Data.Odbc with unixODBC with FreeTDS on > > > Linux, System.Data.OleDb with libgda with FreeTDS on Linux, or with the > > > native ODBC support and MDAC on Windows. However, this adds a lot of > > > dependencies, configurations, and another layer for data to have to travel > > > degrading performance. > > > > > > I would like to create a provider for Microsoft SQL Server in > > > System.Data.SqlClient and for Sybase in Mono.Data.SybaseClient. It will use > > > the native FreeTDS libraries to provide this capability. In order to use > > > FreeTDS, we will need to create C# bindings to FreeTDS. > > > > I have two students planning to port jTDS to C#. > > Why don't you take that approach instead? > > > > I talked with Rodrigo about this yesterday. > > > yes, we talked yesterday. The only thing that worries me is that if > somebody does the TDS provider, we won't have a job for your students > :-) Maybe we should be looking for something else for them? >
That's fine with me. The university I'm at would like to help in the project. If you can give certain projects that are interesting then I will show them to the students and (force) trick them into taking such a project as a thesis ;) /Richard
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