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Friday, February 27, 2009 4:55 AM

New year, new gig, new blog. Moving to the cloud…

I've moved... Here's the new blog with details on why and what...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:57 PM

Demos, Presentations, Links, Screencasts and Videos for SQL Server Compact

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 6:07 PM

Tech Ed EMEA 08 Powerpoints and Demos

Another great year in Barcelona. In addition to the sessions below, we had several nights out on the town. As usual, we had the Microsoft Regional Director get togethers. It's always interesting when you have social geeks out on the town. Chris Menegay
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Saturday, November 08, 2008 11:19 PM

Heading to Tech Ed EMEA Barcelona

I always love going to Barcelona. Sure, it's a great city, and loved riding motorcycles into the mountains last year with my wife; but it's just a great event to attend and present. It sort of like PDC and Tech Ed US wrapped into one event. Anyway, I'll
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Saturday, November 01, 2008 5:11 PM

Compact Tips & Tricks at the Redmond We-Dig users group

This Wednesday, November 5th 2008, I'll be giving doing a local users group presentation that will cover some of the perf tips from PDC and some client database deployment tips for deploying and versioning local databases. I'll be giving a talk on script
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Friday, October 31, 2008 11:23 PM

PDC 2008 - Embedding SQL Server Compact In Desktop And Device Applications

This week I presented a session on SQL Server Compact. Video Recording of the session is here . The session focused on 3 main topics: Why SQL Server Compact "changes the game" for how you might think about leveraging a database in your app Performance
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:03 AM

Privately Deploying SQL Server Compact with the ADO.NET Entity Provider

When privately deploying SQL Server Compact you will need to take a few extra steps if you wish to use the ADO.NET Entity Model. Here's some info on how to do it. Why the extra steps? The ADO.NET Entity model was designed as a mid-tier solution. In the
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 1:15 AM

Evolution or Revolution for moving to offline architectures

There's been a lot of talk, momentum and questioning for where and how occasionally connected designs fit into the application landscape. There have been a lot of questions for "if and how" developers can take their existing apps "offline". There have
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:12 PM

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 available for Win CE 5.0 and 6.0 Platform Builder

After much demand, the latest Platform Builder updates have been released, and they include SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1. Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder Update Windows CE 6.0 Platform Builder Update Steve
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 7:53 PM

Why doesn't Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installer update SQL Server Compact 3.5 for Devices?

In addition to the 64bit support being a web-only download, I should have also noted that for similar reasons, the Devices version of SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 is also only available as a web download. Why: Because of the multiple platforms, the download
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:12 PM

Why does VS 2008 SP1 not include SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 64bit?

So you want 64bit support so you can set Target = Any. You just installed VS 2008 SP1, but when you run your app you still get an error... Why? Because VS 2008 SP1 doesn't actually include the 64bit version of SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1. To remedy this,
Posted by Steve.Lasker | 8 Comments
Thursday, August 07, 2008 2:12 AM

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Released

I'm happy to announce the release of SQL Server Compact - SP1 This release includes several key features and bug fixes following up on the asks of our customers. The new features in SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 are: ADO.NET Entity Framework provider . The
Posted by Steve.Lasker | 31 Comments
Tuesday, August 05, 2008 6:55 PM

SQL Server Compact Books - now in Spanish

For our Spanish customers, Jose M. Torres just published a book covering SQL Server Compact for our Spanish customers . Been a while since my Spanish was up to par, but Jose is one of our MVPs for device apps, so just gives him instant credibility in
Posted by Steve.Lasker | 1 Comments
Friday, May 30, 2008 8:43 AM

Heading to Tech Ed US 08

It's that time of year again. A quick note on some of the sessions/panel discussions I'll be presenting at, and some others that relate to SQL Server Compact. Code Session DAT325 Wednesday 8:30AM-9:45AM Unlocking the Power of Microsoft SQL Server Compact
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:22 PM

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta available

August 6th 2008 UPDATE : SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 has shipped: SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Released Developers looking to get the beta of SP1 for SQL Server Compact can download it from here : If you install Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta , you'll get the
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