SQL Compact and Entity Framework woes

Julie Lerman, Entity Framework guru, blogs about issues encountered when using SQL Compact with Entity Framework, including the classical “where did my data go after debugging” issue.

SqlCeCmd command line query tool now available

The beta release of SqlCeCmd is now available at CodePlex. Read more about the features here.

SqlCeCmd alpha 0.2 release available

This release contains the following features and improvements in addition to what is listed here.

1. Added "-e upgrade" option for in-place upgrade from 3.1 to 3.5 database format
2. In query output, NULL values are displayed as "NULL"
3. Better field size detection, by using .GetSchemaTable() method.