Microsoft and others have a mission: Make it easier to develop and support mobile apps. Microsoft has introduced a new version of its SQL Server CE database for mobile devices and accompanying developer tools.
The database lets users of Microsoft's Pocket PC and Windows CE-based devices search and manipulate data online or off. It also has wizards to ease the setup of security and connectivity options for data replication and an improved storage engine that supports the same number of indexes per table (249) as SQL Server. Software for the server-side of SQL server will run on SQL Server CE 2, speeding the time to market for mobile apps. Microsoft also released a second beta edition of its .Net Compact Framework and Visual Studio .Net. Both are designed to make it easier for programmers to develop mobile applications for .Net, Microsoft's implementation of Web services.
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