C++ development will speed up with the use of SQL Server Compact

re: C++ development will speed up with the use of SQL Server Compact

Twain — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:22:32 GMT

I'm hoping the increased use of SQL Server Compact and C++ by Microsoft developers result in updates to the ATL OLEDB Consumer Templates technology, articles in the MSDN magazine and on the website and a renewed emphasis by Microsoft on providing these C++ oriented database tools for Windows Mobile developers. Does anyone think these will happen?

Twain

re: C++ development will speed up with the use of SQL Server Compact

Jax — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:30:17 GMT

I got all excited for a second thinking there was going to be a performance trick for using it in CE, but it's just being used on a desktop machine running VS.

Boring. You might as well tell us they started using hashtables instead of iterating through entire lists.

re: C++ development will speed up with the use of SQL Server Compact

Steve.Lasker — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:17:44 GMT

Hi Jax,

Sorry if the title was misleading. It's still a cool representative scenario as Compact was able to do a much better job than Hash tables, or other in-memory management collections. Data sizes are continuing to grow, and this is a good example of where Compact can be used to manage in-memory data, or a replacement for XML, in addition to the typical local database scenarios.

Steve

re: C++ development will speed up with the use of SQL Server Compact

Twain — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:19:59 GMT

Steve,

I noticed you never commented on my post about the use of C++ with SQL Server Compact Edition. Is this just a forbidden topic and C++ developers are simply on their own?

Twain

re: C++ development will speed up with the use of SQL Server Compact

Steve.Lasker — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:18:03 GMT

Sorry Twain,

No forbidden here. It's kinda funny to think of C++ as the “forgotten language” after all the VB debates :)

The reality is while we have some great people working on Compact documentation, we just don't get a lot of resources and with so much to cover, there’s more focus on Managed languages these days. If you’re point was updating an article, we’re always interested to have writers.

Besides, I thought the C++ developer didn’t need docs :) Just kidding of course.

Steve

re: C++ development will speed up with the use of SQL Server Compact

jcnovoa — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:40:35 GMT

Is Microsoft planning on building a browser-based database add-on (ActiveX/CAB) to enable the installation and access of relational data via SQL CE for storing user data for a web application (similar to iso storage, but against a SQL CE engine). Similar to what Google is doing with Gears?

http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_database.html.

I was thinking on building an ActiveX browser control in .Net, and have that install and access SQL Compact Edition for Windows for my web application (not mobile or desktop).... are there any efforts on building something like this for SQL 2008 perhaps? Or maybe as an add-on to IE 8?

re: C++ development will speed up with the use of SQL Server Compact

Steve.Lasker — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:32:39 GMT

Building an ActiveX wrapper around Compact is a good solution that would certainly work. We do believe we can deliver a better experience, but we don't have anything to announce at this point.

Steve

Visual C++ 10 和 MFC 10的新特性

Joycode@Ab110.com — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:51:17 GMT

Boris Jabes 和Damien Watkins将会在 PDC 上演示Visual C++10中的新功能。IDE的新功能包括基于SQL Compact的智能提示、支持自定义插件的新的项目和编译系统