Yeah I remember you talking about it. If you are still using it then it must be good. I don't recall any frustrated ranting from you about it so it must be pretty good. (still talking to me now?)
Oh, and I second your vote to change it to "Documentation" award. Alternatively we could assign you "beta tester" status for the list. (how bout now? still talking to me? ;) ESENT looks... interesting. Sounds similar to Isolated storage. (the key'd value part of it anyhow) More to look at and research. Seems to be the way, the more research you do into a topic the more you find to learn about. thanks, Stephen On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > Stephen (I’m still talking to you) > > > > Remember my posts on this in the last year? I am quite happy with SQL CE as > it’s got the complete familiar feel of the full SQL (without sprocs and > stuff), but you have to live with a 3MB install footprint for the > prerequisite. You can probably make the app installer “demand” the SQL CE be > a prerequisite and give the dumb user a nice experience, but I haven’t > explored that. > > > > I tried SQL Lite and was quite impressed, as it has zero install footprint > and you get a complete ADO.NET provider. I just got hung up on some > technical quandaries about DateTime columns and decided to return to it > later, which I’m sure I will. > > > > The dark horse is of course ESENT <http://managedesent.codeplex.com/>, > which I’ve raved about before as a hidden gem inside Windows. I’m using it > in two production apps now, but I wrote a wrapper library around the > low-level managed API translation. The downside of this is the learning > curve to get the hang of how it works. It’s quite simple, but has a peculiar > style that you have to get your head around. > > > > Greg >
