Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 6.0 and .Net Standard

[felovala]

I'm puzzled by the decision to drop support for .NET Standard in the 6.0 release. This change leaves anyone with a .NET application using .NET Standard in a bind. They are now forced to choose between the deprecated System.Data.SqlClient 4.9.0 or Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.2, which can't be upgraded or patched due to the lack of support for .NET Standard beyond that version. It's hard to believe that, despite .NET Framework and .NET Core being maintained concurrently, the connection between the two is gradually fading away.

[netnr]

Compared with MySQL, PgSQL, Oracle and other driven frameworks, it is too radical

[roji]

This change leaves anyone with a .NET application using .NET Standard in a bind.

I think there's a misunderstanding here; .NET applications target either .NET Framework or modern .NET (Cone), rather than .NET Standard. Microsoft.Data.SqlClient still targets .NET Framework, so is usable from all .NET Framework applications.

Compared with MySQL, PgSQL, Oracle and other driven frameworks, it is too radical

FYI the .NET PostgreSQL driver - Npgsql - has done something much more radical, and entirely dropped support for .NET Framework in the latest version (9.0). In contrast, SqlClient still supports .NET Framework - just not via .NET Standard.

[felovala]

Hi @roji ,
Thank you for your reply. I understand that both Framework and .NET are supported. From what I gather, .NET Standard was created to bridge the two. My issue is that my common .NET Standard Data Access Layer, using Dapper, worked beautifully. Thankfully, I can just extract the SqlClient dependencies and still use my .NET Standard DAL. Part of my frustration was that I had just recently finished migrating it from System.Data.SqlClient to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.

[roji]

@felovala why can't your common data access layer simply multitarget both .NET Framework and modern .NET, just like SqlClient now does?

[netnr]

CentOS7 (GLIBC) is not supported since .NET8, so .NET7 is still used