I’m going to be doing more C# in the near future so I’ve been looking into ADO.NET over the weekend. I’m still not sure whether I’ll use MariaDB, SQLite or SQL Server Express for my current sandbox project but it appears that there are connectors for all three available out there.

Looks like the connection strings can be a bit ‘magic’ but no real big issues. I’m currently leaning towards MariaDB for the moment as it has the power to meet my rather limited needs and I’ve worked with MySQL before a good bit.

Over the next few days I expect to start pushing some data and defining the layout for my data. Once I start coding things up I’ll likely start blogging about it here.