What do you recommend to use as an offline data store, since SQL CE support is not in VS 2013?
A few years back I was architecting an occasionally connected .Net desktop application.
VS 2010 was offering full support for Microsoft Sync Framework and SQL CE with Entity Framework.
This seemed like the perfect marriage, so I ran with it, and the resulting software solution is still successfully running in production, years later.
Jump forward to today, and I am architecting a new occasionally connected .Net desktop application.
I was really looking forward to taking advantage of the advances made by Microsoft in using the tools built into VS 2013.
However, what I discovered has dumbfounded me. VS 2013 has no designer support for Sync Framework, and worse, built in support for SQL CE has been completely removed, including the ability to generate Entity Framework models from a
CE database using the designer.
My question to the community is, what tools should I be using to solve the problem of offline storage in my brand new .Net application?
I am aware of ErikEJ’s SQL Server Compact Toolbox, which brings back some support for these features in VS 2013, but it is not as fully featured as the VS 2010 native support was, plus it does not have the institutional “Microsoft” stamp on it.
I am building a multimillion dollar corporate solution that I will have to support for many years.
I would like to have some comfort that the technologies I select, today, will still be supported 5 years from now, unlike the way Microsoft has discontinued supporting Sync Framework and CE in the most recent VS.
I can accept open source technologies, because there is a community behind them, or off the shelf corporate solutions, since they will be driven by financial gain, but I have trouble committing to a solution that is solely supported by an individual,
even if that person is a very talented Microsoft MVP.
Some of the features of SQL CE that I would like to keep are
Built in encryption of the file on disk
Easy querying with an ORM, like Entity Framework
Tools to easily sync up the offline data store with values from SQL Server (even better if this can be done remotely, such as over WCF)
Does not require installation of additional software on the client machine, as SQL Express would
Please, provide your feedback to let me know how you have achieved this, without resorting to simply using an older version of VS or Management Studio.
Thank you.
Hello,
Based on your description, you can try to use SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB.
LocalDB is created specifically for developers. It is very easy to install and requires no management, but it offers the same T-SQL language, programming surface and client-side providers as the regular SQL Server Express.
SQL Server LocalDB can work with Entity Framework and ADO.NET Syc Framework. However, there is no built-in encryption feature in LocalDB which
can let you encrypt database. You should decrypt/encrypt data on your own, for example, using
Cryptographic Functions
Reference:SQL Express v LocalDB v SQL Compact Edition
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