DBison is a modern solution to administrate your databases and creating and executing SQL queries.

How to install

• Visit Releases
• Download the newest version
• Execute the DBison.Setup.msi

How to build your own plugins

• Create a .NET 8 class library
• Add the DBison.Plugin dll as reference
• Create a class that inherits from IConnectParsingPlugin
• Implement the missing methods
• Build the solution
• Place the dll file into the self-chosen plugin path (choosable in the settings under Plugins)

Contributing to DBison

Prerequisites

In order to download necessary tools, clone the repository and install the dependencies via NuGet, you need network access.

You'll need the following tools:

• Git
• .NET 8
• Visual Studio

In order to work with the setup you'll need the following extension:

• Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects

How to build the solution from Visual Studio

• Navigate to the repository
• Open DBison.sln
• Build the solution

How to build the solution from command line

• git clone https://github.com/SirRacoozy/DBison.git
• cd DBison
• dotnet build DBison.sln

How to create a setup

• Navigate to the repository
• Open DBison.sln
• Increment each version number of each project
• Build the DBison.WPF as release
• Publish DBison.WPF with
  • Target location bin\Release\net8.0-windows\publish\
  • Configuration Release
  • Target Framework net8.0-windows
  • Target Runtime win-x64
• Open DBison.Setup.sln
• While having the DBison.Setup project selected open the properties window and change the Version field
• Build DBison.Setup as Release

Acknowledgements

This software uses the following nuget packages:

• MahApps.Metro
• MahApps.Metro.IconPacks
• Microsoft.Data.SqlClient
• Newtonsoft.Json
• System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager