.NET provides a whole slew of utilities for serializing objects into an XML form. But as I wrote in my previous post, .NET Compact Framework has serious problems with this serialization. The good news is that you can leverage all of the existing Attributes and tricks that you think should work (if it weren’t so [...]

XML Serialization in the .NET Compact Framework seems to be buggy enough that it is generally not useful if you need to serialize a class that conforms to a schema of some sort. If all you need to do is serialize and deserialize representations of a class you are probably fine. But if you need [...]

I posted previously on a Bug in the .NET Compact Framework with the XmlEnum Attribute with whitespace in the name. Well I’ve run into some other interesting “features”.
The first thing to realize is that the things that work on the Full framework don’t work on the Compact Framework.
What Works With Serialization
First thing is the good [...]

What is SQLCE?
SQL Compact Edition is the “low end” version of a SQL database solution from Microsoft. It is a single-file, application managed, database implementation. It doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles of the high end database solutions. This is great when you realize the next lowest version, SQL Express is over a [...]