I was just going on the basis of what I paid for the professional version the last time. Although 2005 is an old version there are a huge number of developers maintaining legacy systems on this platform, so I would consider it worthwhile keeping them in the loop, and would be willing to setup a remotely accessible VS 2005 environment for someone to explore the issue further.
Maybe not going as far as including updates in the installer for support for 2005 but at least a manual process for getting it working in 2005 would be very helpful. Patrick. On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Joe Mistachkin <sql...@mistachkin.com>wrote: > > Electric Eddy wrote: > > > > That's a pity, my problem is for the type of development I do, spending a > > few grand on upgrading to 2008 for the sake of the SQLite designer > > capability would be hard to justify. > > > > Actually, I managed to find Visual Studio 2008 Standard for sale on the > Sears web site for less than $300. > > > > > My workaround for the moment is I designed it in a trial version of 2008 > > and manually copy the relevant files back to 2005. > > > > The design-time components are the only feature of System.Data.SQLite that > have to support specific versions of Visual Studio and their use is > completely > optional. Yes, they make it easier to design tables, etc; however, > everything > they do can easily be done manually as well. > > > > > I'll probably need to port to MS SQL to allow for future maintenance of > the > > legacy application I'm maintaining. > > > > That might be a valid option; however, even if you use the "Express" > edition, > which is the only free option, you still have to install it and that can be > quite challenging. > > -- > Joe Mistachkin > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
