Re: Building Windows fat clients - Mailing list pgsql-general

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@softwareanalytics.com>
To: "'Martin Gainty'" <mgainty@hotmail.com>; "'johnf'" <jfabiani@yolo.com>;
<pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Building Windows fat clients


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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
>> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Martin Gainty
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 5:58 PM
>> To: johnf; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
>> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Building Windows fat clients
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>>
>> 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@yolo.com>
>> To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.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
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