I am going to need to create a small windows application that stores basic data about people.
The requirements are:
- Recruiters go out into the field and gather demographic data about people they talk to.
- Recruiters return ‘home’ and contribute their gathered data into the main database (SQL Server 2005).
This is the first time I have ever done anything like this. So I am just looking for suggestions. I know I want to use C# to build the windows app and don’t have a problem using .net 3.5.
I think a good place to store their data would be in a SQL Server Compact Edition database.
That’s as far as I am. I mainly build ASP.net webforms, so this is a bit of a departure for me (but that’s a good thing).
How would you tackle this? I am especially interested in how I might get the local data into the big database? Does the .net or sql server have any tools that make this easy? Any suggestions and considerations are welcome.
I would start with the Sync Framework. There’s even a sample using SQL Compact as an offline data store.