C# and remote database connection (using Compact)

Question

I'm developing an application on a Windows CE Platform and this application need a connection to a remote database (Sybase ASE). This remote database is on the internal network.

How can I do this?

It seems that ODBC isn't embedded in the Compact Framework...

The only one solution that I found was to develop an UNIX application that executes my SQL code and send it back to my C# application (using Socket...).

Better idea?

Thanks !

Answer 1

If you have access to IIS, you could create a web service and call that from your Windows CE application. This I think would be cleaner than anything you would do with raw sockets.

I don't know this for a fact, but it is very possible that the DataTable instance could be serialized and a lot of the parsing work would be done for you.

Your web method might be something like this:

DataTable ExecuteQuery(string query);

Answer 2

You might be able to use the ASE ADO.NET Data Provider. I believe it does work with the Compact Framework.

Answer 3

Just curious; doesn't Connecting to an ASA database on Windows CE documentation provide guidance for doing this on Windows CE?