Am creating small aplication like a phonebook, but i dont know which database to use ? any sugestions? I wont something that is free, easy to implement with c#, and just a local database not some big server staff
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Am creating small aplication like a phonebook, but i dont know which database to use ? any sugestions? I wont something that is free, easy to implement with c#, and just a local database not some big server staff
Access? Not free, but most people have it as part of Office. It's also easy to ship the database files with your app.
XML might be another idea
If its going to be local and its not like 10 people will acces it at the same time and start doing modicfication thus rendering the whole database corrupt after 2 people have been changing the same person's data ... then I'd suggest to just use xml.
There's this xmlSerializer in .NET which can be used from C# :=).
You would basically have person objects, that have properties like name, firstname, tel number, fax, email, age ,blabla ... using the xmlSerializer you'll end up having a nice xml file afterwards.
Note that this shouldnt be used when you intend to have a phone book with really alot of entries or with multiple people modifying the phone book at the same time if so I'd suggest a real DBMS.