Question

I’m using the official SQLite for .NET but I would like to use it as a SQL shell (like the sqlite command-line shell), where users can enter arbitrary SQL, such as:

>>> CREATE TABLE employee (firstname varchar(32), lastname varchar(32))
>>> insert into employee values('First','Last');
>>> select * from employee;
First | Last

and maybe even:

>>> .tables
employee

Is there code in the library to make this easy? Or another library to wrap SQLite for .NET?

Answer 1

The sqlite3 command-line tool is implemented in the file shell.c, using the SQLite C API.

System.Data.SQLite offers everything from that API (except for sqlite3_complete()), so if you want to build your own shell on top of .NET, you have to port everything in that file to some .NET language.