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Monday, October 08, 2007 9:31 AM

SQL Server Compact Edition - Getting Started

Here are a couple of relatively intersting "getting started" links for SQL Server Compact Edition: Data Storage Architecture with SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition (draft) book - "Windows Mobile Data Synchronization with SQL Server 2005 and...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:20 PM

The Symbian Conversion

I've been a fan of Windows Mobile devices for the last couple of years for the sole reason that the development model is imho far superior that what's been available for Blackberry, Symbian etc. However this is all changing as the mobile phone...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:41 PM

New Mobile Development Community Site

From the makers of the " Smart Devices Framework " the team at OpenNETCF Consulting have launched a new community website, http://community.opennetcf.com . This follows a long trend of these guys supporting the mobile development community....
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Sunday, September 02, 2007 8:18 AM

Entity Framework - Something I can ignore for the time being

Well, when I say "can" ignore I actually mean I can't work with it at the moment using Sql Server CE. Apparently, according to Danny who has been great at posting an update regarding the decisions that have been made, the Sql Server CE made...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:03 AM

Another Entity Framework Beta

Yesterday the ADO.NET team announced Beta 2 of the much anticipated Entity Framework and support tools. Whilst the initial impressions from using the new designer were good, it quickly became evident that the necessary "back-to-the-drawing-board"...
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Sunday, August 05, 2007 1:44 PM

SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition Book

I just noticed that Jeff has reviewed the book Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition . Jeff goes into substantial detail in his review looking at the contents of each of the chapters. Although I haven't had the opportunity to read this work, from...
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Monday, July 02, 2007 5:25 PM

Great work Frank!

If you haven't already you should check out today’s Australian Financial Review as there is a great photo of Frank and article about Silverlight which follows Frank's post t about an interview he gave last week. Whilst the photo isn't in the...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:44 PM

Going Occasionally Connected with Orcas

Visual Studio vNext (aka Orcas) has a number of features that is set to make building occasionally connected applications really really easy. Since downloading the Beta 1 bits I have been trying to get my head around all the improvements and changes that...
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Sunday, April 01, 2007 2:54 PM

Now Why Didn't I think of That

I was just reading a post by Steve Lasker in which he describes how you can create a SQL Server Compact Edition database and how you can detect if the database already exists. One of my complaints about the introduced "|DataDirectory|" substitution is...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:17 PM

Why having a Database Engine in ROM is a good idea

Yesterday I came across an interesting site dedicated to Mobile Synchronisation and noticed they had a post regarding Symbian and the fact that in the next version of their OS (v9.5) they will follow Microsoft's path of including a database engine (SQLLite...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:06 PM

SQL Server CE Site Update

If you are looking at the Microsoft Sync Services which is likely to be part of Visual Studio Orcas you should check out the MS Sync Services FAQ across at www.sqlserverce.org . This has been updated to include the information posted by Steve Lasker on...
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Friday, March 16, 2007 10:42 PM

SQL Server CE as a testing tool

I noticed that DevPrime has posted an interesting comment about using SQL Server CE (SSCE) is as source database for test data. This was followed up with some comments by Jay Kimble regarding taking a snapshot of a SQL Server database and pushing it into...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:00 AM

Finally the March 2007 Orcas CTP

It has taken me a while to get an opportunity to play with the March Orcas CTP but I figured that I could do without a couple more hours of sleep to have a play. I'm just going to post a few things I noticed - some a small, some a not.... First things...
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Saturday, March 10, 2007 10:44 PM

VistaDB, SQL Server CE I think Not....

In the midst of all the hype surrounding the release of SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition (ok, so maybe I got a little too excited that MS have released the silly no-desktop licensing constraint on SQL Mobile) I must confess that I stopped looking around...
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:29 AM

Community Sites

In this spirit of community portals (such as the Daily Developers , SqlServerCE.org and NetFx3 ) I thought that I should blog about a cool site that Andrew Parsons (don't forget to order your copy of Professional Visual Studio 2005 today...) just pointed...
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