Re: Building Windows fat clients

From: "Bill Bartlett" <bbartlett(at)softwareanalytics(dot)com>
To: "'Martin Gainty'" <mgainty(at)hotmail(dot)com>, "'johnf'" <jfabiani(at)yolo(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Building Windows fat clients
Date: 2007-09-20 15:23:48
Message-ID: 212c01c7fb9a$3e5a9e50$1e9617ac@bartletthome.com
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I haven't used it in a year or so, although I've heard that it only
keeps getting better / more mature / more complete.

According to their "Supported Platforms" page (
http://www.mono-project.com/Supported_Platforms ), their current list of
supported OS's is:

* Linux
* Mac OS X
* Sun Solaris
* BSD - OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD
* Microsoft Windows

One of these days I'm hoping to have some time to get back to using it
(instead of just using Java for cross-platform work).

- Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Gainty [mailto:mgainty(at)hotmail(dot)com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 11:00 AM
> To: Bill Bartlett; 'johnf'; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Building Windows fat clients
>
>
> Glad to hear that
>
> I knew Novell *was* working on a port to BSD
> But I havent heard about ports to other Nix platforms?
>
> M--
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Bartlett" <bbartlett(at)softwareanalytics(dot)com>
> To: "'Martin Gainty'" <mgainty(at)hotmail(dot)com>; "'johnf'"
> <jfabiani(at)yolo(dot)com>;
> <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Building Windows fat clients
>
>
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> >> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Martin
> >> Gainty
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 5:58 PM
> >> To: johnf; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> >> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Building Windows fat clients
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello Guys
> >>
> >> Using C# means .NET framework will need to be installed and your
> >> webapp will only work with Microsoft OS
> >
> >
> > Not entirely true. The Mono project ( www.mono-project.com ) has
> > implemented a decent amount of the .NET Framework in a
> cross-platform
> > environment, including much of ASP.NET.
> >
> >
> >> Be aware scripting languages such as PHP and Python will
> >> necessitate that
> >> you acquire all of the libraries for your web app..
> >> As long as you stay mainstream you should be ok
> >> But if you have specific requirements for XYZ Db that nobody
> >> supports or
> >> protocols or device drivers that nobody has written you'll
> >> have to write the
> >> libraries yourself
> >>
> >> Martin--
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "johnf" <jfabiani(at)yolo(dot)com>
> >> To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:20 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Building Windows fat clients
> >>
> >>
> >> > On Wednesday 19 September 2007 10:19, Scott Ribe wrote:
> >> >> I'm asking this group because we tend to think alike wrt to data
> >> >> modeling and separation of concerns ;-)
> >> >>
> >> >> Any recommendations on ORM libraries for new Windows
> >> development? The
> >> >> last
> >> >> time I started anything from scratch was over 10 years
> >> ago, and the
> >> >> "state
> >> >> of the art" seemed to be to smash everything together into
> >> event handlers
> >> >> on GUI objects. Ugh. I pulled the M of the MVC out into
> >> separate coherent
> >> >> classes and implemented a *very* simple ORM, leaving
> the VC mostly
> >> >> conflated in the event handlers--which is not too bad
> >> since this app will
> >> >> never need to be cross-platform.
> >> >>
> >> >> So the dev tool was discontinued, some closed-source
> libraries are
> >> >> getting
> >> >> less and less compatible by the year, and we're going to
> >> rewrite. Where
> >> >> to
> >> >> start? It's a custom Windows-only app, only installed at
> >> one site. Using
> >> >> .NET would be fine. C# or C++ would be most-preferred
> >> language choices,
> >> >> although we could suck it up and use Java. I don't want to
> >> put VB on the
> >> >> table.
> >> >>
> >> >> Leaning toward Visual Studio .NET because I know it
> will be around
> >> >> (in whatever morphed form) for a while; but also considering
> >> >> Borland's supposedly revitalized C++ tools because I used
> >> C++ Builder
> >> >> with success back when MS C++ compilers were still
> awful. I should
> >> >> probably mention that the Windows apps, with the
> exception of one
> >> >> complicated "explore customer's
> >> >> entire history here" screen, are pretty simple; the
> >> complexity is in
> >> >> reports and stored procedures.
> >> >>
> >> >> Suggestions where to start?
> >> > If you like python you might want to check www.dabodev.com.
> >> Dabo was
> >> > designed
> >> > to access data.
> >> > --
> >> > John Fabiani
> >> >
> >> > ---------------------------(end of
> >> > broadcast)---------------------------
> >> > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------------------------(end of
> >> broadcast)---------------------------
> >> TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------(end of
> broadcast)---------------------------
> > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives?
> >
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/
> >
>

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