Delphi .net ASP.NET tip #1

Normally when you go to deploy a Delphi based ASP.net app, you need to deploy a bunch of borland dlls with it, at least Borland.Delphi.dll, and say for bdp based SQL Server apps you need Borland.Data.Common.dll, Borland.Data.MSSQL.dll, and Borland.Data.Provider.dll (you also need to put bdpmss15.dll in your system folder for the SQL driver, bummer ey?).

If you don't use any of the Borland components, just use the .net data components, then you don't need these dlls (which isn't clear from Borland's deployment instructions).

So you can write an ASP.net app against SQL server, and only need the following on deployment to a windows box:

• The .net framework


• IIS installed


• MDAC 2.6 or later

Easy!