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I want to use a free database to do some databinding (storage) in my WPF Application (PixelSense).
I have already used SQL Server 2010 with Visual Studio 2010 and it works very fine.
I’ve heard also that Entity Framework does not work great with MySQL due to some incompatibility issues, and SQLite doesn’t support Booleans.
What do you suggest for me in this case ?
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Thank you, I’ve choosed Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express
Why : Free, by Microsoft, almost the same as SQL Server
In microsoft world, you can use :
As it’s Microsoft products, you will have less probability of issues.
My preference goes to Sql Compact because of its low binaries footprint. There are however some limitation (ntext not supported very well), at least in the version I used some years ago.
Good to know, Access database are not supported. While Access has not a good reputation, for local app it make senses.
Outside Microsoft World, SqlLite has a good reputation.