[Mono-list] Mono and ADO.Net

Gregory Junker gjunker@shockwaveaudio.com
Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:59:01 -0400


Shows you how much Windows Forms development I do. ;)

Greg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cory Nelson" <phrosty@gmail.com>
To: <gregory.junker@shockwaveaudio.com>
Cc: "Parviz" <psoulati@ameritech.net>; <mono-list@ximian.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Mono and ADO.Net


> Windows.Forms uses Winelib, GTK# is a seperate package.  Afaik, GTK#
> is more reliable than Windows.Forms right now.
> 
> On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:39:45 -0400, Gregory Junker
> <gjunker@shockwaveaudio.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Best I can tell, Windows Forms are done up in GTK# under Mono. ADO.Net
> > is widely supported, and most major database systems have providers
> > written (ByteFX for MySQL, etc). Works just fine, and the legal issue,
> > AFAIK, is, according to Miguel, far overblown. There are several recent
> > threads on that topic that a quick archive search should produce.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 21:08 -0400, Parviz wrote:
> > > We are looking at developing in Windows and taking it toUnix with
> > > Mono.  We have heard rumors that ADO.Net and windows forms are
> > > patented by MS and will not be avialable in Mono.
> > >
> > > First, is this true and second is there a different solution?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Parviz
> > 
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