How Do I make my Setup Project Include my Database (.sdf) file along with the winform application?

Question

I have created a Winforms application in VS 10 (C#), with SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 as a back end.

First I created a new setup project by following these steps.

But I got database file could not be found exception on installing application on client's machine.

Then I tried creating a setup project and included my database (.sdf) file in Application Folder and I got following exception:

Internal error: Cannot open the shared memory region.

I am getting the database file by following code :

SqlCeConnection con = new SqlCeConnection("DataSource=|DataDirectory|\\myDatabase.sdf");

And my DataDirectory is pointing to the path

string path = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetData("DataDirectory", path);

Can anyone please help me including my database file?

Answer 1

Add the database file to your applications folder in your setup.

Then in your connection use

SqlCeConnection con = new SqlCeConnection("DataSource=myDatabase.sdf");