Chapter 16. ADOCE and SQL Server for Windows CE

The use of databases is fundamental to writing most business applications. Chapter 4 (Property Databases and the Registry) showed how to store and retrieve data in the Windows CE property database. While this is very flexible, and entirely adequate for small to medium amounts of data, it does not have the robustness or flexibility of a true relational database such as SQL Server. Further, the API functions and MFC classes are not particularly easy to use when retrieving data from several property databases, as would be the case using a SQL SELECT statement with a join between tables.

Windows CE supports a subset of OLEDB, and providers for the Windows CE property database are supplied. ActiveX ...

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