

I thought that would be true and that I’d need your Toolbox.Ĥ. I did Add New Data Source / Database / DataSet from Data Sources which failed to show any SQLite. That was the only Add option that seemed connected to your suggestion (as I recall from VS Express 2010, there was as Add Local DB option, but I guess that’s gone in 2013).ģ. I did Add / New Item / Linq to Sql Classes in my VS project. I installed SQLite ( (x86 / 圆4)) in a test WinForms app using NuGet Package Manager.Ģ. There is also a table here that allows you to determine which Transact-SQL commands, features, and data types are supported by SQL Server Compact 3.5 (which are the same a 4.0 with very few exceptions), compared with SQL Server 20.Įrik: In trying to follow your suggestion to use SQLite and Linq, I may be trying to do something that isn't possible with VS Express 2013, the IDE I’m using as noted in my first post.ġ. Procedural T-SQL - Select Case, If, features Runs on Windows Mobile / Windows Phone platform Privately installed, embedded, with the application It is a replacement of the current “User Instance” feature in SQL Server Express. LocalDB is the full SQL Server Express engine, but invoked directly from the client provider. Information about LocalDB comes from here and SQL Server 2014 Books Online. I have updated the comparison table from the excellent discussion of the differences between Compact 3.5 and Express 2005 here to reflect the changes in the newer versions of each product.

Now that SQL Server 2014 and SQL Server Compact 4 has been released, some developers are curious about the differences between SQL Server Compact 4.0 and SQL Server Express 2014 (including LocalDB)
