[Mono-devel-list] OleDb || Gda# || Postgres

[Met @ Uber]

Ignore I've gotten it working....

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:53, Met @ Uber wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 11:23, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:26, Met @ Uber wrote:
> > > My head hurts, so I'm not sure if I'm following you...
> > > 
> > > I need to use OleDb (System.Data.OleDb) because sadly that's all that
> > > OJB.NET
> > >
> > OJB? What is that?
> > 
> > >  supports ATM.  So in order to do this I need to use Gda# too? 
> > > Or does the provided OleDb replace the direct use of Gda#?  I'm a little
> > > lost, would you mind clarifying a bit?
> > > 
> > you can use either OleDb or GDA# or any of the other options Daniel
> > mentioned in his mail. One or the other, not at the same time.
> > 
> > OleDb uses libgda as an implementation detail, which causes a bit of
> > confusion, since you need to setup libgda before using it on OleDb.
> > Also, we don't support yet OleDb connection strings :-( which means you
> > need to use libgda nomenclature to connect to the database.
> > 
> > GDA#, on the other hand, is a C# binding for the libgda library, so if
> > you use it, you will be using directly libgda and its nomenclature.
> > 
> > If you still want to use OleDb, that's fine also, use whatever is better
> > for you. But if you are going to use it, please fix the connection
> > string support I mentioned above :-) It seems an easy task (which I'm
> > sorry for not having done before :-( and will allow users to use the
> > same code in windows and in linux.
> > 
> > cheers
> > 
> 
> So I've written a small C script to create my config file which worked
> beautifully.  I then tried using my C# application once more, but I'm
> getting the error "A null value was found where an object instance was
> required".  So I looked at the code, and realized that it doesn't look
> like OleDbConnection() should work at all?  Basically, I'm wondering how
> anyone has gotten this to work to-date?  
> 
> Also I have pretty much finished the connectionString implementation,
> but I don't have a _good_ way of testing it easily (make ... cp ...
> etc), but I'll live.
> 
> ~ Matthew Metnetsky

Ignore I've gotten it working....