Re: Building Windows fat clients

> -----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
> 
> 
> 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" 
> To: 
> 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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