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Im currently developing an IM application to work with windows CE , however within the development in VB.NET i was going to use the data adapters etc which are usually found under the data tab in the toobox but they dont seem to exsist when developing a mobile application.
Does anybody know how to get round this to create a connection to a database ?
The database im using is a MS Access 2002 one.
Please Help
Zed
access databases do not exist on windows ce, only sql server ce (free licence).
So there is no way to connect to it unless you are using a wifi or gprs and pulling the data from the access database on the desktop and sending it to the device via a webservice.
Cheers for the reply mate.
Hummm ok now im really stuck, have no idea where to begin , me thinks i have a problem :sick:
if you write a web service you can get it to extract whatever tables you want from the access database and add then to a dataset.
Webservices can pass datasets back and forth so if you include a web reference in your mobile application you can call a method on the webservice to retrieve the database tables and pass them to the mobile application.
now you can store these on the device's sql server database
you can still use access databases but you need to use a third party component that acts as a wrapper for adoce in .net because microsoft does not support it. It is called adoce in the hand and you can get it from In the hand