Working with libDatabaseHelper

Before Anything Else...

First of all, you will need the following packages before you can get libDatabaseHelper to work correctly.

• .NET 3.5 or something better (Your project should as well)
• SQL Compact Edition 3.5

Working with libDatabaseHelper is pretty easy. Grab one of the releases (better the latest version). Reference this library to your .NET project and you should be good to go. However for a complete standalone deployment (without separately installing SQL CE 3.5 on clients) of the application you might need the following DLLs on the application's directory. You can easily grad these from your

- sqlceca35.dll
- sqlcecompact35.dll
- sqlceer35EN.dll
- sqlceme35.dll
- sqlceoledb35.dll
- sqlceqp35.dll
- sqlcese35.dll

DatabaseEntityFormGenerator.exe is a tool that you can use to generate generic forms, capable of updating DatabaseEntities. We will discuss this tool later on this chapter.