Chapter 7. Programming SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition with ADO.NET

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SQL Server Compact Edition allows you to store data on a desktop or mobile device. A majority of application code consists of retrieving data from a database, updating it, and storing it back to the database. You can use an OLE DB Provider for accessing or manipulating the database or you can use an ADO.Net provider for managed access.

In this chapter, you will learn how to use ADO.NET to connect to the SQL Server Compact Edition database as well as how to read, update, and merge the changes back to the SQL Server Compact Edition database.

Introducing ADO.NET

ADO.NET is the data access component for .NET Framework and ...

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