Office Closed
Our office in Florida has been closed. 4.1 will likely be the final release from us. We are in talks with a few third parties about them acquiring the product to continue in the future.
There is no full time support or staff working on the product at this time.
You can still purchase the 4.1 product (includes the engine C# source code).
There is nothing "wrong" with the engine, we just can't make enough money to
work on it full time. There are lots of developer tools companies that are
not staffed by people full time, they just don't tell you about it. The
source code included in the new SKU is your insurance in the event that a new
company takes over the product and goes in a drastically different direction.
The current SKU is about an $8,500 value, and cost me orders of magnitudes more
to build all this.
So even though the product is no longer full time developed, consider it for
your .Net database needs. Do you think you could get the source to SQL CE
for this price? I don't think so, and we have far more features!
VistaDB is an Embedded SQL Database Engine for .Net
VistaDB is the only .Net embedded
database that allows you to Xcopy a single DLL for both 32 and 64 bit runtime support.
Want ClickOnce deployment for your .Net application? VistaDB requires
zero config on the client.
No more worries about COM deployment for the database engine! Even our
database files are built for ease of deployment - a single database file with no
external logs or complex permissions.
XCopy and Clickonce deployment to both 32 and 64 bit machines!
About the VistaDB 4 .Net Database Engine
There are a lot of free database engines out there that you could use for your
projects. But none of them provide the same level of functionality and SQL
Server compatibility of VistaDB. Not even SQL CE can match the features
built into VistaDB. We are the only embedded database that supports SQL
Server compatible T-SQL and CLR Procs.
Dot Net Database Basics
If a relational database doesn't have advanced features like updatable SQL Views, true referential integrity,
cascading updates / deletes, table value params, T-SQL stored procedures, CLR
Triggers, and
CLR stored procs then why would you bother? Database engines that only
provide basic ado.net features you need
are a waste of your time. VistaDB is the most advanced embedded sql desktop database
engine in the world. We built VistaDB from the ground up to be a managed
database engine, this is not some unmananged C++ database with a dot net
wrapper!
Worried about steep learning curves?
Developers who are already familiar
with the SqlClient namespace will feel right at home in VistaDB. We
are also an ADO.NET 2 provider. All of the familiar syntax from ADO.NET
works with VistaDB.
Support VistaDB and SQL Server from the same executable?
Do you wish you could build a single executable that supported both SQL Server
for multi user and another database on the desktop? We know how hard it is
to build applications that support both desktop and client server from a single
executable. VistaDB syntax contains the most commonly used features from
SQL Server. All of our syntax will scale up to SQL Server. This
means you can use one codebase in your product and run it against SQL Server and
VistaDB.
VistaDB fully supports
the ADO.NET Provider Factory model. This allows you to dynamically load
the database engine at runtime based upon application preferences. Many companies use VistaDB
on the desktop and SQL Server for larger deployments. It is not the
easiest way to write database code, and there is much less documenation around
to explain how to do some things in Visual Studio. But if you take the
time using Provider Factories can be a powerful runtime feature for your
application.
Work with Visual Studio 2008 and 2010?
VistaDB has full Visual Studio integration
giving you the familiar tools you need to be productive quickly, including full Server
Explorer integration. Developers who have used other desktop
databases in Visual Studio will be able to immediately start working with
VistaDB.
Full integration within Visual Studio Standard or Higher
Dot Net Database Admin Tools?
Some embedded databases give you an engine and nothing to edit or maintain the
actual database. You usually have to purchase a third party DBA tool, build you own,
or tell users to go download the large bulky tool from the vendor.
If you want to deploy a custom branded database admin tool to your users, building
your own is often your only choice. VistaDB includes a powerful graphical
dot net database admin tool
for developer usage, and provides an unbranded version with complete C# source
code. The DBA Sample Tool gives you a fully functional tool that you can
brand and ship to your users! Many users tell us how the DBA Tool alone
was worth the purchase price in time savings.
VistaDB Data Builder Screenshot
Visit the VistaDB Product Overview page for more information.