Announcements and Downloads

SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 Beta 2 Downloads Available

Administrator — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:21:00 GMT

1. SQL Server Compact 3.5 for Windows Desktop Beta 2: Installs the files for SQL Server Compact 3.5 and Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.Net for Windows Desktop platform

2. SQL Server Compact 3.5 for Windows Mobile Beta 2: The download contains the CAB files and DLL’s that are used to install SQL Server Compact 3.5 on the Windows Mobile Devices platform

3. SQL Server Compact 3.5 Server Tools Beta 2: Installs the Server Tools on the IIS server enabling merge replication and remote data access (RDA) with SQL Server 2005 and later.

4. SQL Server Compact 3.5 Books Online Beta 2: The download contains SQL Server Compact 3.5 Books Online and Read Me. SQL Server Compact 3.5 Books Online do not install with Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. The Books Online are only available on the Web.

[Information care of Ambrish's post on the SSCE forum]

MEDC 2007

Administrator — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:20:00 GMT

In case you haven't already penciled these dates into your diary here are the dates (all of them) for the Microsoft Mobile and Embedded DevCon 2007:

Please select your MEDC event from the list below.

Location	City	Date
US	Las Vegas	May 1-3
India	Bangalore	May 10-12
Australia	Sydney	May 16
Taiwan	Taipei	May 29
Korea	Seoul	May 30
Japan	Tokyo	June 6
Singapore	Singapore	June 8
China	Beijing	June 21
Europe	Berlin	June 25-26

For more information please visit the MEDC website at www.medc2007.com

Microsoft Sync Services CTP Available

Administrator — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:23:00 GMT

Steve Lasker has announced that the first CTP of the Microsoft Sync Services has been released. A new blog has been setup to provide an FAQ for this technology here at www.sqlserverce.org. Further links of interest are:

Live From Redmond WebCast: Offline Data Synchronization and Caching for Smart Clients

Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET CTP release

Sync Services forum

Synchronizer blog

Offline Application Demo 1 (download)

The client technology that ships with this CTP is version 3.5 of SQL Server Compact Edition - to be released as part of the Orcas ship cycle.

SQL Server Compact Edition RTW

Administrator — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:43:00 GMT

After a couple of name changes the latest edition of SQL CE has been released to the web. Now known as SQL Server Compact Edition here are a number of useful links to get started:

Welcome

Administrator — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:05:00 GMT

This blog is dedicated to announcements and relevant downloads for SQL Server CE. We will endeavour to keep posts on this blog relevant to SQL Server CE, tools and technologies that will help you build applications. If you have any thoughts, please feel free to post comments!!!