Re: .NET driver

On Thursday 02 August 2007 08:57, Andrei Kovalevski wrote:
> Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > On 8/2/07, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net> wrote:
> >> Ühel kenal päeval, N, 2007-08-02 kell 11:24, kirjutas Rohit Khare:
> >>> I used NPGSQL .NET driver to connect PGSQL 8.2.4 database to VB.NET.
> >>> As stated on NPGSQL page, it doesn't seem to provide seamless
> >>> integration and performance with .NET. Instead when I used ODBC, the
> >>> performance was comparatively better. What's the reason? When can we
> >>> expect .NET driver that provides seamless integration.
> >>
> >> What kind of "seamless integration" are you looking for ?
> >
> > The .net data provider is not as good when working with typed datasets
> > in terms of support from the ide. Normally for other providers the
> > IDE does everything for you, writing update statements and such in a
> > ORM fashion. This is kind of a pain for some of the report designers
> > and other things that want to work with a typed set. It's possible to
> > work around this, it's just a pain, and changes with each release of
> > visual studio. Also, the connection pooling portions are buggy
> > (google LOG: incomplete startup packet).
> >
> > The ODBC driver works pretty good actually. I can't speak about the
> > performance though.
> >
> > merlin
>
> I have an experience with writing ODBC driver for PostgreSQL
> (https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/odbcng/). I would be happy to
> help community to improve .NET data provider.
>

That would be nice. Of course none of this seems relevant to hackers, so I'd
ask those interested to check out the .net project page at
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/npgsql/

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Robert Treat
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