Download available for SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta for ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3

re: Download available for SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta for ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3

William — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:45:20 GMT

Installed, but don't see the "ADO.NET Entity Data Model " in any template when I select new item. Like it is not there.

Lots of ORM and VS activity lately

Other Blogs we recommend — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:27:42 GMT

Quite a bit of activity last week in the Visual Studio and ORM spaces. Visual Studio released a CTP of

re: Download available for SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta for ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3

SQLCEBLOG — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:38:43 GMT

In case you do not see the ADO.Net Entity Data Model in the Add New Item check that the XML Editor QFE has been installed from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=104985

Regards

Ambrish

re: Download available for SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta for ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3

David Jacobson — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:42:20 GMT

The entity framework supports the express editions of Visual Studio 2008. However, the SQL Server Compact Design tools will not install with just the express editions. Is that intentional? Are the design tools required for local use of SQL Server Compact Edition?

re: Download available for SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta for ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3

Will — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:18:01 GMT

I'm getting the same "Setup Error: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is not found" issue described in http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=333272

I have VS2008 on 64-bit Vista, fully patched. I thought it might be a confilict with SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio that is installed as part of the SQL Server Management Studio for SQL 2005, but after removing it and Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Runtime

and Visual Studio 2005 Premier Partner Edition I'm still getting the error. Any advice?

re: Download available for SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta for ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3

laxminro — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:10:30 GMT

Hey Will,

We are working on this issue actively and we should update/refresh the release binaries soon which would work on 64-bit

Thanks,

Laxmi

re: Download available for SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta for ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3

Daniel Fernandes — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:44:03 GMT

This is a bit off topic but do you know if the newest version of SQL CE removes some of the limitations of the engine that meant it wasn't suitable for multi-threaded applications ?

We have built an application based around Linq2SQL to provide data access, SQL CE 3.5 to run on client machines and Synchronization Framework to keep the local SQL CE databases up to date.

We noticed random freezes that affect the UI thread (this is a WPF application) and we suspect that the SQL CE engine has a built in limitations with the quantity of threads accessing the database.

PS: we do some data access on the UI thread, and on some others in the threadpool (the one that runs the synchronization process).

re: Download available for SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta for ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3

laxminro — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:48:05 GMT

Daniel,

SQL CE has multi-threading support which you also seem to have used in your application. Now, coming to the number of threads it would scale is a good question. In our internal testing we have seen it doing good till 50 connections. After that there is a dip in the curve. However, I am not sure on if this information alone is enough for you to start with. Can you please elaborate a bit more on random freeze as I am not able to get what you mean by random freeze, does it happen on huge query. Did you check with single thread the same query? Please contact us through 'Blog Contact' page on the top so that we can converse and dive into details.

Thanks,

Laxmi