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All things SQL. Inc. compact!
After watching a DNRTV episode with Scott Cate on EasyDB I was really impressed and could definitely see how it could solve a requirement in a project I am planning... Straight after listening to the show, with the advice of Scott Cate (a promotion code), I hot stepped over to http://easydb.com to sign up. After waiting for a few days, maybe a week and still having heard nothing I tried again and was greeted with this little chestnut... ...and that remains to this day. Why bother doing a dnrtv episode...
You are all undoubtedly aware of LINQ to SQL, its fair to say its had a large amount of publicity and coverage in the .net circle. VS 2008 makes getting going with LINQ to SQL very easy but that is not the case with SQL Compact (yet!). However its not difficult if you have heard of a wonderful little app called SqlMetal, this little beauty will generate the .dbml files for you...happy days :) I have a small SQL Compact database to use for this demo, you can see it here in VS 2008 server explorer...