安装WPF应用程序时自动安装SQL Server Compact数据库.Exe文件

Question

I had developed a WPF application, and its backend is a SQL Server CE .SDF file. In setup and deployment project I added .SDF file in it

The issue is: to access and get records from the .SDF file we require an additional software. Please find the below Link

https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=17876

It has 2 exe files

1. 64 Bit
2. 86/32 Bit

Visual Studio directly installs this software when we install VS

On a client system, I didn't find these files so I am unable to access the .SDF file and get records from it

I need to Copy these files in Application folder and Automatically Install it if the above software is not Present in the PC

Now I am Manually Installing these software(exe ) in Each PC

Answer 1

You're mistaken - to deploy a SQL Server CE 4.0 based application, you do NOT need to deploy and/or install any additional software to your client system - it suffices to include the necessary, relevant SQL Server CE 4.0 DLL's into your application (into the bin or lib folder or something), and just ship those files with your application. That's all you need - no server-side or client-side install needed ! (That's the WHOLE POINT of using SQL Server CE, after all!)

See these links for in-depth descriptions of how to do it:

Right here on Stackoverflow:

• How to deploy SQL Server Compact 4.0

Another way to do it:

• How to deploy the SQL Server Compact Edition software locally

Official MSDN documentation:

• How to deploy a SQL Server Compact 4.0 database with an application