VB.Net in Linux
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good afternoon... I just want to ask your advice regarding the following: 1. can an application or program coded in vb.net 2002/2003 with sql server as database work in linux platform? because my client (a school) has plan of changing their windows platform to linux. is there anything i can do so that i can run a vb.net application with sql server database? what are the pros and cons IF a vb.net application with sql server run in linux? 2. what are the databases that could run both in linux and in windows? please enumerate some... thank you in advance... respectfully, len_ems
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good afternoon... I just want to ask your advice regarding the following: 1. can an application or program coded in vb.net 2002/2003 with sql server as database work in linux platform? because my client (a school) has plan of changing their windows platform to linux. is there anything i can do so that i can run a vb.net application with sql server database? what are the pros and cons IF a vb.net application with sql server run in linux? 2. what are the databases that could run both in linux and in windows? please enumerate some... thank you in advance... respectfully, len_ems
len_ems wrote: can an application or program coded in vb.net 2002/2003 with sql server as database work in linux platform? If it's a desktop application then no. If it's a web application then yes, provided that the server(s) is a Windows Server (2000 or 2003). The Linux client is then just consuming HTML. len_ems wrote: my client (a school) has plan of changing their windows platform to linux. is there anything i can do so that i can run a vb.net application with sql server database? what are the pros and cons IF a vb.net application with sql server run in linux? You definitely won't be able to run a SQL Server database on anything but Windows. If you port your application to Mono, the open-source X-platform version of .NET (there are articles on the codeproject site) then you stand a chance, but again not everything will be guranteed to work. However, there are some real industrial-strength Mono applications out there, so you can probably achieve what you want with some effort. len_ems wrote: what are the databases that could run both in linux and in windows? please enumerate some... MySql if you want free, otherwise, Oracle or DB2... Kevin
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len_ems wrote: can an application or program coded in vb.net 2002/2003 with sql server as database work in linux platform? If it's a desktop application then no. If it's a web application then yes, provided that the server(s) is a Windows Server (2000 or 2003). The Linux client is then just consuming HTML. len_ems wrote: my client (a school) has plan of changing their windows platform to linux. is there anything i can do so that i can run a vb.net application with sql server database? what are the pros and cons IF a vb.net application with sql server run in linux? You definitely won't be able to run a SQL Server database on anything but Windows. If you port your application to Mono, the open-source X-platform version of .NET (there are articles on the codeproject site) then you stand a chance, but again not everything will be guranteed to work. However, there are some real industrial-strength Mono applications out there, so you can probably achieve what you want with some effort. len_ems wrote: what are the databases that could run both in linux and in windows? please enumerate some... MySql if you want free, otherwise, Oracle or DB2... Kevin