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Using Exceptionless.com for error logging and feature usage tracking with a...
In the next release of the SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox, which is currently available as a Release Candidate, I will start using ExceptionLess.com for Error Reporting and Feature Usage...
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SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox 4.2 – Visual Guide of new features
After more than 370.000 downloads, version 4.2 of my SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox extension for Visual Studio 2010 and later is now available for download and available via Tools/Extensions...
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SQL Server Compact ADO.NET data access performance – part 1: Overview
In this five part series on SQL Server Compact performance, I will demonstrate and measure the performance of the two available data access APIs provider by the SQL Server Compact ADO.NET provider...
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SQL Server Compact ADO.NET data access performance – part 2: INSERTs
In this second part of this series, I will show by examples how to use the two available ADO.NET APIs in the SQL Server Compact ADO.NET provider for INSERTing data. I will also show some informal...
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SQL Server Compact ADO.NET data access performance – part 3: SELECTs
In the third instalment in thisseries, I will demonstrate how to implement SELECTs using the two available APIs in the SQL Server Compact ADO.NET provider. Keep in mind that the “alternative” method of...
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Getting started with the SQL Server Compact and other providers for Entity...
In connection with the recent release of Entity Framework 7 (EF7) beta 6 on NuGet, I have contributed two SQL Server Compact providers that work with this beta release (in close collaboration with and...
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SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox 4.3 – Visual Guide of new features
After more than 415.000 downloads, version 4.3 of my SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox extension for Visual Studio 2010 and later is now available for download and available via Tools/Extensions...
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SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox 4.4 & 4.5 – Visual Guide of new features
After more than 470.000 downloads, version 4.5 of my SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox extension for Visual Studio 2010 and later is now available for download and available via Tools/Extensions...
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SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1 hotfix available
I was recently made aware that a hotfix for SQL Server Compact was made available in 2014 – but better late than never.The hotfix can be requested via the Microsoft support knowledgebase here:...
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In the meantime
Since may last post in February, as few things have happended in the world of Microsoft Data Acces Development:Entity Framework Core 1.0 has been released at the end of May, including the providers for...
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Entity Framework Core Extensions
This is a list of some of the available Entity Framework Core extensions out there that expand the functionality of the Entity Framework Core runtime. Only libraries that extend DbContext or similar...
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Downloading SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 for Devices
A number of developers are still, in 2017, developing new solutions for Windows CE / Windows Mobile using Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2. Unfortunately, Microsoft has removed the...
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Using Entity Framework 6 and SQLite with Visual Studio 2017
The System.Data.SQLite DDEX provider does not support Visual Studio 2017. This post describes how to work with SQLite and Entity Framework 6 in Visual Studio 2017, using the "SQLite Toolbox" DDEX...
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Update your Microsoft.Data.SqlClient dependency if you run EF Core 3.1 with...
Blog post here: https://erikej.github.io/efcore/sqlclient/2020/03/22/update_mds.html
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Avoiding SQL Server plan cache pollution with EF Core 3 and...
Blog post here: https://erikej.github.io/efcore/sqlserver/2020/03/30/ef-core-cache-pollution.html
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Query non-table classes using ad-hoc (raw) SQL with EF Core 3.1
Blog post here: https://erikej.github.io/efcore/2020/04/06/query-non-table-classes-raw-sql.html
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Generate Entity Framework Core classes from a SQL Server database project -...
New blog post: Generate Entity Framework Core classes from a SQL Server database project - .dacpac file
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How to pass a dynamic/variable list of values as SqlParameters with...
New blog post: How to pass a dynamic/variable list of values as SqlParameters with FromSqlRaw in EF Core
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Pluralization with EF Core and EF Core Power Tools
Blog post here: https://erikej.github.io/efcore/2020/04/26/ef-core-pluralization.html
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New features in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.0 preview 3
Blog post here: https://erikej.github.io/sqlclient/2020/05/04/mds-version2-preview3.html
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