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I have been looking forward to working with the .NET CF, but threads like this one over at www.devbuzz.com have me worried about performance issues. Basically this thread says the .NET CF is practically worthless because of performance problems. Has anyone here experienced these issues or have feedback?

-James

Posted: Feb 20 2003, 03:08 PM by jamesavery | with 3 comment(s)
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Curtis Swartzentruber said:

I'm hoping that at least some of this is just learning what to do and not do, just like any new platform. It's seems okay on the emulator to me, but I haven't installed anything down to an actual device yet. and i'm not that deep in a project yet. when you think of everything they are trying to cram down into that little footprint, I won't be surprised if the first generation CF is rather slow. whether too slow to use probably depends on the app. certainly I found embedded VB to just be crap to code in. i don't have a C background, so never got around to trying embedded C though.
# February 20, 2003 3:51 PM

James Avery said:

I researched it some more and it sounds like the major issue was with SQL access, and that using stored procedures speads it up drastically (duh!).

-James
# February 21, 2003 1:27 PM

Curtis Swartzentruber said:

Hmmm, you can't use stored procedures with SQL Server CE, but you can use parameterized queries, which are a lot faster than inline SQL. Or maybe this was about connecting to full SQL Servers out on the network. But at any rate, there are definitely some tricks with data access that can change the perceived performance quite dramatically.
# February 25, 2003 9:14 PM
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