Re: 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
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--
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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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