Application Database

[Dougie]

I want to include a database in an application, the application must be
deployable with it's own database system and is basically used for storing
records. Is this easy enough to build into an application?

Doug.

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Dougie,

It's easy enough to use any database from within .NET. The issue that
you have is deploying it. If you use a database technology, I would
recommend that you look for one that has its own installer package, which
you can merge with your own install.

Personally, if the database is single user, then I would use the Jet
provider for Access and just use MDB files.

Hope this helps.

 

[Dougie]

Thanks

Dougie,

It's easy enough to use any database from within .NET. The issue that
you have is deploying it. If you use a database technology, I would
recommend that you look for one that has its own installer package, which
you can merge with your own install.

Personally, if the database is single user, then I would use the Jet
provider for Access and just use MDB files.

Hope this helps.


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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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I want to include a database in an application, the application must be
deployable with it's own database system and is basically used for storing
records. Is this easy enough to build into an application?

Doug.

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

Depending of the complexity of the DB you could use Access for example, I
had a similar situation and what I decided was to use a XML file to store
the data, when the application runs I read it into a dataset and when I
close it I serialize the dataset back to the XML file, this is a trivial
thing to do and do not depend of any external component.


Cheers,