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Started works on Npgsql2

Hi all, We already started to work on Npgsql2 with support for .net 2.0 and ado.net 2.0. Josh Cooley already refactored all Npgsql classes to extend from .net 2.0 classes, like DbCommand, DbConnection and others. We hope to have a preview release soon with some long awaited features like Provider Factory support, design time in vs.net 2005 and others. Stay tuned!

Npgsql 1.0 Released!! A little bit of its history

Hi all! I'm really happy to announce that Npgsql Team has released Npgsql 1.0 final! I started to work on Npgsql 4 years ago, just after I finished my CS graduation course. What motivated me was the possibility to implement a network communication protocol and to have something done to community. I'm a big fan of OpenSource philosophy, better, I'm passionate about OpenSource and community, and realized I didn't return anything to it up to now. Besides that, I wanted to make part of it. So, I started sending a message to postgresql mailling list asking if there was something about that being worked on. I received some replies about nothing being done yet and one saying that a p/invoke based proof of concept was tested. I wanted to implement postgresql communication protocol so I started to work on it. Some time later, I sent another message talking about project launch. At that time, Dave Page, from pgAdmin, jumped the wagon and started to help me get project going. I