I know this is very annoying, uninformative, directionless…blah blah… error. And, kindly pardon me for blogging about this error very lately. Better late than never and here it goes. What are the actual errors? 1) Can't find P/Invoke DLL sqlceme30...

SQL Server CE/Comapct uses Windows API LoadLibrary ( PlatformBuilder or WinCE or Win32 ) to load the DLLs. When LoadLibrary fails to load any SQL CE dll, we throw the error “Can’t load sqlce dll”. Now, let’s discuss more on why LoadLibrary can fail. ...

The difference between these two is much similar to Internal and External Memory Fragmentation. From SqlCeEngine.Shrink documentation, Reclaims wasted space in the database by moving empty and unallocated pages to the end of the file, and then truncating...