Windows 8 Camp in a Box, Consumer Preview Edition This download includes the hands-on-labs, presentations, samples and resources from the Windows 8 camps for developers ramping up on Metro style app development. Release Date: 5/11/2012 Web Camps Training Kit Web Camps Training Kit May 2012 Release featuring ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET Web API, [...]
Erik (blog | twitter) has just recently blogged that the Preview of SQL Server Compact Toolbox version 3.0 is now available. SQL Server Compact Toolbox is a Visual Studio 2010 Pro or higher add-in (for 3.5/4.0) and standalone app (for 4.0), that adds scripting, import, export, migrate, rename, run script, manage replication and more to [...]
Inspired by Erik’s Using LINQ to SQL with SQL Server Compact 4.0 (yes, you can!) blog post, here’s how you make Sync Framework work with SQL Compact 4.0 While the Microsoft documentation is very clear in stating that Replication and Synchronization is not supported in SQL Compact 4, it’s not uncommon to see questions on [...]
Microsoft have just released a new service update for the SQL Azure Data Sync Service. Most notable of this release is the ability to update the Dataset definition for a Sync Group. You can now add/remove a table/column from a Dataset with some limitations in that you cannot change a column’s data type, add/edit/remove a [...]
SQL Server 2012, SQL Express 2012 LocalDB, Sync Framework, Sync Framework v4 and SQL Azure Data Sync
Apologies for the blog post title, I just couldn’t find a better way to summarize what this post is so I just listed all the products that this post is all about. I noticed that over the last couple of weeks, there’s a few search engine referrals to this blog having ‘sql 2012 localdb sync, [...]

