Hi all,
I get a lot of web site assignments in C# to go through, using connections to various flavours of the MS Sql database types (Sql Server, Express, CE, etc). For my basic-level students, setting up Sql server (any edition) is tedious work and often problematic.
I'm thinking that there must be an alternative. For testing, and for low-traffic web sites, I'm thinking of saving tables and their data as XML files (or the like), which could be saved with the project. However, these files should not be connected to via an XMLDataSource, but via an equivalent to the regular SqlDataSource, only that this new datasource translates to and fro an XML document.
In other words, what I am looking for is a way to create, update, delete, and read from tables and sql queries as usual, only that everything is stored as text files (possibly in XML format). This would really help when teaching and also grading assignments (or so I hope). Regardless whether this idea sounds stupid or not, I wonder if anyone knows if there already exists applications or Visual Studio add-ons for this kind of feature, and if not, if this "realtime translator" would at all be possible to code and include in Visual Studio.
Love to all,
Pettrer
Tags: C#, XML, SQL, Server
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