Electric Eddy wrote: > > That's a pity, my problem is for the type of development I do, spending a > few grand on upgrading to 2008 for the sake of the SQLite designer > capability would be hard to justify. >
Actually, I managed to find Visual Studio 2008 Standard for sale on the Sears web site for less than $300. > > My workaround for the moment is I designed it in a trial version of 2008 > and manually copy the relevant files back to 2005. > The design-time components are the only feature of System.Data.SQLite that have to support specific versions of Visual Studio and their use is completely optional. Yes, they make it easier to design tables, etc; however, everything they do can easily be done manually as well. > > I'll probably need to port to MS SQL to allow for future maintenance of the > legacy application I'm maintaining. > That might be a valid option; however, even if you use the "Express" edition, which is the only free option, you still have to install it and that can be quite challenging. -- Joe Mistachkin _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
