[Mono-dev] SqlCeServer on mono

[A Nagappan]

Hi,

We haven't implemented it yet. You are most welcome to start working on
this :)

Thanks
Nagappan


Nagappan A <anagappan at novell.com>
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>>> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at  5:14 AM, in message
<1179186250.5491.13.camel at mandel-desktop>, Manuel de la Pena
<etil15 at gmail.com>
wrote: 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I have been recently working on a Windows CE/XP application... one
of
> the ideas we had when developing the application was to use a SqlCE
> database file (.sdf) to store the different data used by the
> application. I though it would be nice to try an compile it with
mono
> (gmcs) and get it running on Linux, but I've got the problem that
the
> namespace System.Data.SqlCeServer has no yet been implemented (let
me
> know it it has been).
> 
> I have been thinking to implement the different classes of this
space
> myself, is there anyone already doing this??? 
> 
> I have already done most of the NUnit tests that the classes should
pass
> and I'm testing them with the Microsoft dll. I'm thinking of either
> creating the dll as a wrapper of the SQLite namespace (both
databases
> are file based) or simply finding a way to read the .sdf files. 
> 
> Although the first option is far easier to implement it will mean
that
> people will have different files according to the platform (Window =
> sdf, Linux = sqlite), I don't think this is a massive issue,
specially
> because Linux users could have bigger dbs (.sdf has a max size of
4Gb)
> and I could always make a tool to go from one to another....
> 
> Summarising, let me know what you think, and if there is anyone
already
> doing the SqlCeServer namespace, please tell me and I'll do my best
to
> help :)
> 
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