[Mono-list] SqlCeServer on mono

[Jorge Bastos]

Hi,

Why not a database like SQLite?

Jorge

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From: "Manuel de la Pena" <etil15 at gmail.com>
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Subject: [Mono-list] SqlCeServer on mono


> 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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