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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 SQL Server Compact 3.1" by Rob Tiffany Chapters...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 10-08-2007
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 wars intensify. With the introduction of the iPhone...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-12-2007
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. In a previous post I talked about a Skype chat that...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-04-2007
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 the decision to focus their attention on other...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-02-2007
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" has really cost the team. For example in previous...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 08-28-2007
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 Jeff's comments I think this book would be...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 08-05-2007
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 same league as Stephen's cartoon I think there...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 07-02-2007
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 Microsoft have added. I must admit the overall...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-25-2007
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 that it isn't understood by System.IO. Luckily it...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-01-2007
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 fo Symbian, SQL Server CE for Windows Mobile...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 03-27-2007

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