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Harry Simpson
5/18/2005 8:05:21 AM
I've been doing ASP.NET and PPC apps for years now. I've gone back to
revive an old application that used Access.

I'm witing it in VB.NET in VS2003 as a WinForms app. What's the local DB of
choice to use with this type of app. Is it still Access? I'm really
spoiled by SQL Server and SQL Server CE. I've even thought how neat it
would be if I could make something like SQL Server CE local database work on
the desktops. I want a database I can distribute and install with the app.

What's the general direction now....could I slam a 750 record table into an
XML file from access and ship it for simple data access lookup?

TIA

Harry

Doug Bell
5/19/2005 10:02:48 AM
Harry,

My thoughts:

You can use MSDE but Access is still robust and reliable as a local
database. MSDE will upsize to SQL Server.

If you just want to store (read and write) a structure of records for that
User then Yes XML works great, read it into a DataSet.

Doug


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