VB.Net Standard Edition Data Restriction

[kevin8092]

Greetings all.

I am using a standard edition of VB.Net which is limited to MS only data sources. I am using Access and that is working great. Now comes large data volumes and the need to use a more capable data engine. I have MySQL installed and running very well. I have all the MySQL .Net connection ADO classes installed and they seem normal. VS can see them but will not let me implement non MS data sources (Std Edition license restriction).

May I work around this restriction? Will VS/VB allow a hand coded solution or do I need my check book to solve this problem.

 

[TechGnome]

Hand code the connections. It's only the VS Server Bowser that has the restriction. IMHO it's a bad way to do it anyways as it hides too much of the code and can cause problems in deployment.

-tg

 

[kevin8092]

will do, many thanks good sir!