Data and the .NET CF

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Arn Cota

Hi,

I am just wondering, do most people serve data up via XML, SQL Server CE, or
what? There is no built in support for Access databases correct?
 
It really depends. XML is very easy to implement, and since you often work
with the same objects (dataSets/DataTables etc) if you are using CE, it can
make sense to use it exclusively or mainly. You can also grab data from web
services natively in this format. CE is fairly easy to use and has some
great features, like ensuring GUID's are unique across the enterprise, but
there's potentially licensing issues and not everyone finds publication a
walk in the park at first.

There is no native support for access per se. Peter Foot and
www.inthehand.com made a really great wrapper that's amazingly inexpensive,
particularly in light of how good it is.

HTH,

Bill


www.devbuzz.com
 
personally I found xml way too slow for my purposes (reading in and making a
DOM structure out of an xml file with i guess around 9000 entries)... After
that I decided to try placing everything in a database and acessing what i
need via SCL Server CE, this works much better for me...
 
XML can certainly be slow, I agree. So can CE. CE also has limited ability
currently with the number of connections, which Datasets/XML don't. It
really depends on the situation. Also, you can use them both, just
persisting your datasets to SQLCE instead of XML. After the initial read
and the final write, all functionality could easily be implemented
indentically.

HTH,

Bill
 
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