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Asked: 2026-05-13T06:56:22+00:00

I’d like to start an application that makes heavy use of a database, and

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I’d like to start an application that makes heavy use of a database, and is supposed to run on Windows under .NET as well as Mac/Linux under Mono.

Having done some research, I’ve realised that neither LINQ-to-SQL nor LINQ-to-Entities are production-ready in Mono at the moment (here and here). According to the former link, LINQ-to-SQL may at least make it into Mono 2.6, due some time in Nov 2009.

Mono also implements ADO.NET 2.0, as far as I can tell, although the test results are not looking great (assuming the page is up-to-date). Also, using raw ADO.NET is going to be very painful compared to LINQ.

Which database access API would you guys recommend in this situation?

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  1. Editorial Team

    For the record, we settled on IQToolkit together with a custom tool to generate classes from a database. The result is more low-level than ActiveRecord-style approaches; essentially nothing more than adding strong typing and LINQ support on top of SQL.

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