.NET Driver is needed

[dodyg]

It looks like every single platform will have a driver except .NET. It's a weird omission.

[tobiemh]

Hi @dodyg this is an omission indeed (by mistake). We definitely want to ensure SurrealDB can be used from as many code bases as possible!

We aren't .NET developers over here (yet, in our current team), so any advice, suggestions, guidance, contributions, or ideas would be gladly accepted!

[dodyg]

• ArangoDB has a HTTP based API driver (https://github.com/ArangoDB-Community/arangodb-net-standard)
  • https://www.infoq.com/articles/creating-http-sdks-dotnet-6/
• EdgeDB has a binary driver (https://github.com/quinchs/EdgeDB.Net)
• In theory .NET developer can use IKVM (https://github.com/ikvm-revived/ikvm) to access the Java driver.
• If you have a gRPC endpoint, it is super trivial to use it in .NET.

[kgnet88]

There is an interesting start of one here:

https://github.com/ProphetLamb/Surreal.Net

and we are interested in help (we want to use surrealdb in our next project), so is there a way to focus the different developer somehow?

[dodyg]

Nice find.

so is there a way to focus the different developer somehow?

Can you please clarify?

[tstraus13]

FYI... there are some people communicating over at the surrealdb.net repo about getting a C#/F# .Net implementation of the driver going. We are unclear on how to get started and if other implmentation/repos (https://github.com/Surreal-Net/Surreal.Net) are official or not. Thanks.

[dodyg]

@tobiemh Blazor WebAssembly, which is a .NET tech, can use this https://surrealdb.com/docs/integration/libraries/webassembly

[tobiemh]

Hi @dodyg , I'd be interested to know more about Blazor WebAssembly. How do you link a WASM plugin into it, or is it better/easier to link a C library into .NET instead?

[dodyg]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/webassembly-native-dependencies?view=aspnetcore-6.0

It should be as simple as

<ItemGroup>
  <NativeFileReference Include="Test.wasm" />
</ItemGroup>

I don't know much about linking C library to .NET in general but it should be doable.

[AlexFrid]

We have a .NET driver now:
https://docs.surrealdb.com/docs/integration/sdks/dotnet