Just a quick note the let you know, that SQL Server Compact will be exposed to Windows Phone developers as announced at the MIX11 conference. It is already on the device, as I blogged about earlier. The Windows Phone Developer blog has an overview of what is included for developers in the update, expected to be available this year. The developer tools update will appear next month, and I will blog more details about the API and other findings. The database will not be exposed via ADO.NET, as System.Data is not available in Silverlight, but the database will be accessible via LINQ. More details to follow when the API is published, and I have had a play with the developer tools. This MIX11 presentation demonstrates some of the details of working with SQL Server Compact on Windows Phone via Linq and DataContext only.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Useful new topics in SQL Server Compact 4.0 Books Online
SQL Server Compact 4.0 Books Online contains a couple of useful new help topics, that relate some to the new features in version 4.0, the OFFSET FETCH clause, support for medium trust under ASP.NET, and a couple of missing ADO.NET APis, that have been implemented.
SQL Server Compact 4.0 Books Online is available for download, and also available online.
Some of the interesting new topics include:
What’s new in SQL Server Compact 4.0
Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 has a group of new features, and enables a new scenario where SQL Server Compact 4.0 can be used as a database for ASP.NET Web applications and Web sites.
The OFFSET-FETCH clause provides you with an option to fetch only a window or page of results from the result set. OFFSET-FETCH can be used only with the ORDER BY clause.
SQL Server Compact 4.0 is optimized for use as a database for ASP.NET web applications. Web applications are required to run in Medium Trust or Partial Trust, SQL Server Compact 4.0 can also run in medium or partial trust level. (Includes steps required to make SQL Server Compact 4.0 run under medium trust with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
SqlCeConnection.GetSchema method
Returns schema information for the data source of this SqlCeConnection
SqlCeConnectionStringBuilder Class
Provides a simple way to create and manage the contents of connection strings used by the SqlCeConnection class.