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Using LINQ to SQL with SQL Server Compact 4.0 (yes, you can!)
This question on StackOverflow more than hinted at the fact, that it was possible to use LINQ to SQL with SQL Server Compact 4.0. (Despite “rumours” of the opposite). I decided to find out, if this...
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Preview of SQL Server Compact Toolbox version 3.0 now available
This short blog post lists the main new features in version 3, with pointers to the menu location of the new features in the upcoming version 3.0 of my SQL Server Compact Toolbox add-in for Visual...
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Visual Studio 11 beta - Tooling for SQL Server Compact
Visual Studio 11 beta includes SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1 CTP1, as I blogged about here. In this post, I will describe in greater detail the tooling support included with Visual Studio 11 beta. Notice...
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SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.0–Visual Guide of new features
After more than 110.000 downloads, version 3.0 of my free, open source SQL Server Compact Toolbox extension for Visual Studio 2010 is now available for download. This blog post is a visual guide to the...
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Private deployment of SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2
The information found in the official documentation is not very extensive, and this blog post hopes to extend on the information found there. I have already blogged about private deployment with SQL...
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HOW TO: Connect to SQL Server Compact from F#
I have previously blogged about connection to SQL Server Compact from other technologies than pure ADO.NET: ASP Classic VBA (Excel) Silverlight PowerShell F# version 3.0 in Visual Studio 2012 makes it...
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The state and (near) future of SQL Server Compact
I recently got asked about the future of SQL Server Compact, and in this blog post I will elaborate a little on this and the present state of SQL Server Compact. Version 4.0 is the default database in...
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Exporting SQL Server Compact to SQLite
The current available local relational database storage options on WinRT (Windows 8) are limited to SQLite (and maybe some others). Also on Windows Phone 8, both SQL Server Compact and SQLite will be...
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SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1 Released To Web
SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1 has now been released as a web download (it is also included and installed with Visual Studio 2012). The release version is 4.0.8876.1 This release adds support for Windows 8...
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Getting started with SQLite in Windows Store / WinRT apps
In this blog post I will expand the blog post by Tim Heuer to include information on how to include and access a pre-populated SQLite database file, maybe even a file created by migrating from a SQL...
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SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.1–Visual Guide of new features
After more than 130.000 downloads, version 3.1 of my SQL Server Compact Toolbox extension for Visual Studio 2012 and 2010 is now available for download. This blog post is a visual guide to the new...
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Tips and tricks for using SQL Server Compact with VB/VBA/VBScript/ASP
This may sound a bit old-school, and it probably is, but some developers of Visual Basic still find that SQL Server Compact is a compelling local database solution. To use SQL Server Compact with VB,...
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SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 downloadable update list
The updates for SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 are now referred to a CU (Cumulative Update), which is what the hotfixes also were previously. The difference now is that the CU installation overwrites the...
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SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.1.1 with support for Windows Phone 8 and VS 2012...
Just a short note to let you know, that the SQL Server Compact Toolbox add-in has been updated beginning of this month to support the following new features:Generation of a LINQ to SQL DataContext for...
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SQL Server Compact Merge Replication Library alpha released
I have just published a new Codeplex project, that contains a library to help with SQL Server Merge Replication using SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2. This library simplifies the code and configuration to...
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Integrating Red Gate SmartAssembly in the SQL Server Compact Toolbox
In the next release of the SQL Server Compact Toolbox, which is currently available in an alpha release, I will start using Red Gate SmartAssembly for Error Reporting and quality improvement. In this...
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SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #1 : locate the ROWGUIDCOL column...
During the next many weeks, I plan to publish a short, weekly blog post with a (hopefully) useful code snippet relating to SQL Server Compact. The code snippets will come from 3 different areas: SQL...
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SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.2–Visual Guide of new features
After more than 150.000 downloads, version 3.2 of my SQL Server Compact Toolbox extension for Visual Studio 2012 and 2010 is now available for download. This blog post is a visual guide to the new...
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SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #2 : locate the IDENTITY column...
The next instalment in this series also concerns a column type that only exists once per table, the IDENTITY column. The type of the column must be either bigint or int, and you must also specify an...
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SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #3 : locate the rowversion column...
The third data type that is only allowed to appear in a single column per table is the rowversion data type, also known as timestamp (no relation to datetime). Rowversion is a data type that exposes...
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