Last night, I was lucky enough to attend a Scottish Developers meeting in Glasgow [...] Whilst I had thought that the session was going to be all about object database in Java, it turns out that db4o has a .NET implementation too. And it supports the .NET Compact Framework, i.e. mobile devices. Speaker Jim Paterson did a really good job of explaining db4o, its use, its positives and its negatives.
Of course, the first thing I did today was go off and download db4o and set about a simple “hello world” style example. True enough, everything that I saw last night worked like a charm. In fact, here’s the C# that I threw together in about 5 minutes...
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