RE: Extensible Storage Engine

2010-08-08 Thread Greg Keogh
I wanted to do a tech.ed talk on ESE but it was rejectedah, what might have been. Ah! The pillocks. Anyway, I've read the samples, some of the source code and some of the documentation and I think they CodePlex team have done a really neat job on wrapping esent.dll in a friendly way

Re: Extensible Storage Engine

2010-08-08 Thread silky
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: [...] I am quite sure that I will use managed ESENT in real apps quite soon. Like UDP and T4, I reckon it’s one of those hidden gems. What is UDP? Or are you referring to the protocol? Greg -- silky

Extensible Storage Engine

2010-08-07 Thread Greg Keogh
Folks, a couple of years ago I asked in here for recommendations about what lightweight in-process database I could use easily from .NET apps. I eventually settled upon SQL Server Compact Edition due to familiarity with its big brother and the footprint was quite small, just a single MSI install

RE: Extensible Storage Engine

2010-08-07 Thread Greg Keogh
Aha! I just went back to the page again ... I was tricked yesterday when I quickly read the ManagedEsent http://managedesent.codeplex.com/ page. I downloaded the DLL of interop and I see it has a sample console app which seems to perform some quite complex work. It looks like they've

Re: Extensible Storage Engine

2010-08-07 Thread Joseph Cooney
I wanted to do a tech.ed talk on ESE but it was rejectedah, what might have been. On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, a couple of years ago I asked in here for recommendations about what lightweight “in-process” database I could use easily from .NET