Mimer Provider Manager / News: Recent posts

The Mimer Provider Manager source have now been moved Subversion instead of CVS. Use the Subversion menu item to browse the source code and get information about how to access the repository using your standard Subversion client.

The first stable release in the 2.0 branch is now available. This release works with .NET Framework 2.0.1 and support ADO.NET 2.0. This version of Mimer Provider Manager integrates into Visual Studio 2005, including the documentation.

Apart from being adapted to .NET 2.0 Mimer Provider Manager 2.0 includes several bug fixes
compared to the current stable release.

Mimer Provider Manager 2.0 also adds support for Oracle 10g and the new Mimer Data Provider 9.4.0.

A new branch from Mpm version 2.0 have been checked into CVS. The new
version of Mimer Provider Manager have been adapted to work in ADO.NET
2.0 and together with Visual Studio 2005.

Apart from being adapted to .NET 2.0 Mpm 2.0 includes several bug fixes
compared to the current stable release.

Mpm 2.0 now uses configuration files instead of the registry. This makes
Mpm less bound to Microsoft Windows and makes it easier to port it to
other version of .NET, for example Mono.... read more

The first stable release in the 1.2 branch is now available.

This version includes a number of improvment in the user interfaces and the refactoring of the classes to further reflect the ADO.NET Provider architecture is complete.

A noticeable change from the 1.1.3 release is that the Mpm specific parts have been moved to the Mimer.Mpm.Data.Extensions namespace. This might break your existing application. If you, for example, have used Mimer.Mpm.Data.MpmProviderInfo you have to change that to Mimer.Mpm.Data.Extensions.MpmInfo.... read more

A new version of Mpm is now available. This beta version contains several enhancements, mainly concerning ease-of-use and administration. Among other things, the framework has been refactored in order to further reflect the ADO.NET Provider architecture. A noticeable change is that the Mpm specific parts have been moved to the Mimer.Mpm.Data.Extensions namespace. This might break your existing application. If you, for example, have used Mimer.Mpm.Data.MpmProviderInfo you have to change that to Mimer.Mpm.Data.Extensions.MpmInfo.

The first public release of Mimer Provider Manager has been released on Sourceforge.

A common problem when developing .NET applications accessing a SQL database is that the .NET interface is different for each database vendor, making Microsofts ADO.NET technology a step back at least ten years in time for database openness and application portability. The database access in ADO.NET using proprietary interfaces could increase the cost for application development significantly, and will cause a strong dependency to a specific database vendor that may raise the costs even further.... read more