SAP .Net Connector - NCo hakkında

This note defines the release of the "SAP connector for Microsoft .NET" (NCo), its support strategy, and its supported platforms.

Other terms

Life cycle, platform, support.

Reason and Prerequisites

The components of NCo can be downloaded from http://service.sap.com/connectors.

Solution
Support Strategy

1. NCo version 1.0 is no longer supported.

2. NCo version 2.0 is available for download. Support will be provided in the respective maintenance period of SAP Web Application Server 6.40 and SAP NetWeaver 2004. This shall mean that support is offered for the design time no longer than 31 December, 2009 and for the run time no longer than 31 March, 2013.

              There is the installation option of a complete design time and run time comprising version.

3. NCo 3.0 is available for download on the SAP .NET Connector homepage:
http://service.sap.com/connectors --> SAP Connector for Microsoft .NET

              The maintenance period for NCo 3. 0 currently extends until July 31st, 2018.

Supported Platforms

1. The design time version of NCo version 2.0 requires:

• Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003

• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, including Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1

• Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.3 or 1.4

2. The runtime version of NCo version 2.0 requires:

• Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003

• Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1

3. NCo 3.0 no longer consists of a design time and a runtime, but instead comprises one single runtime component. Hence, there is no longer a dependency to a specific Microsoft Visual Studio version.
It no longer uses the "proxy approach", but a "dynamic approach" similar to JCo and the NW RFC library. This makes it easier to develop applications using different versions of Microsoft Visual Studio. Currently, NCo 3.0 supports the following platforms:

• Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7

• 32bit (x86) as well as 64bit (x64) platforms

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0 (Choose the version for .NET 4.0, when using the .NET runtime 4.0, and the version for .NET 2.0, when using the .NET runtimes 2.0, 3.0, or 3.5.)

              NCo 3. 0 works with any SAP backend system starting with release 4.0B, and transparently supports Unicode and non-Unicode backends. Note that there is no longer any dependency to librfc32.dll.

Kaynak:
http://www.stechno.net/sap-notes.html?view=sapnote&id=856863