[Mono-dev] Question about Mono.Data.Tds

[Andres G. Aragoneses]

Thanks for the info Daniel!

Then, a review on this pull request is appreciated, to bring ADO.NET's 
Connection Lifetime support to Mono:

https://github.com/mono/mono/pull/517


On 05/12/12 18:09, Daniel Morgan wrote:
> The assembly Mono.Data.Tds can be thought of as internal to the assembly
> System.Data for the SqlClient implementation.    So, you can change the
> API of Mono.Data.Tds as long as you change the assembly System.Data too.
>
> The reason the assembly Mono.Data.Tds exists is historic: Mono.Data.Tds
> was created to provide the networking/protocol implementation of TDS for
> Sybase ASE (Mono.Data.SybaseClient), Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 or higher
> (System.Data.SqlClient), and old Sybase SQL Server and Microsoft SQL
> Server pre-7.0 (Mono.Data.TdsClient) databases.    However, I do not
> think the assemblies Mono.Data.SybaseClient nor Mono.Data.TdsClient is
> included in Mono anymore.  If you need Sybase ASE or support for older
> Sybase ASE or Microsoft SQL Server databases, you should use ODBC/FreeTDS.
>
> Mono.Data.Tds is based on the projects FreeTDS and jTDS.
>
>
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> *From:* Andres G. Aragoneses <knocte at gmail.com>
> *To:* mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 4, 2012 4:19 PM
> *Subject:* [Mono-dev] Question about Mono.Data.Tds
>
> Question about Mono.Data.Tds:
>
> Is it API stable? Does it need to be?
>
> I ask this because I'm interested in fixing a bug. And for me, it would
> be much easier to write a regression test for it if I could change it's
> API slightly.
>
> And when I say "slightly" I don't mean breaking changes, but API
> additions: for instance, make some class inherit from some new interface.
>
> Feedback appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Andres
>
> [1]https://github.com/mono/mono/tree/master/mcs/class/Mono.Data.Tds
>
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