[MonoDevelop] Trouble importing Visual Studio SLN

[Bojan Rajkovic]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: monodevelop-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com [mailto:monodevelop-
> list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Michael Hutchinson
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:57 AM
> To: Devin Venable
> Cc: monodevelop-list
> Subject: Re: [MonoDevelop] Trouble importing Visual Studio SLN
> 
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Devin Venable
> <venable.devin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm now clear on the differences.  Since I don't have a Windows
> > environment or Visual Studio, my approach is to create a new "web
> > application" project, find and add each of the existing files, and
> > then add the project references.  This seems to be working, but I
> > can't find all of the needed assemblies.
> > I need Oracle.DataAccess.  BTW, I'm developing on Ubuntu and I've
> > already installed via apt and added references for these:
> > libmono-oracle1.0-cil - Mono Oracle library (for CLI 1.0)
> > libmono-oracle2.0-cil - Mono Oracle library (for CLI 2.0) I've googled
> > for this and it's unclear to me whether or not I'll be able to
> > download a driver from Oracle that will work under mono on Linux.
> > Some people suggest using a 3rd party driver.  What is the
> > recommendation?  I need to not touch the code for the sake of the
> > Windows developers, so I need a solution that includes the assembly by
> the name Oracle.DataAccess.
> 
> AFAICT, Oracle.DataAccess is the Oracle-provided assembly. I have no idea
if
> it works under Linux or not - you should try scanning it with MoMA. Mono
> does include an implementation of System.Data.OracleClient (see
> http://www.mono-project.com/Oracle) but it seems to be deprecated -
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/77d8yct7.aspx.
> 
> --
> Michael Hutchinson
> http://mjhutchinson.com

Oracle.DataAccess does not work on Linux--it relies on P/Invokes to
Windows-specific Oracle libraries.

--Bojan