VistaDB 3

  • Truly embedded ADO.NET 2 SQL database for Dot Net 2/3.x, Compact Framework and Mono
  • Less than 1 MB single assembly deployment
  • TSQL procs, UDFs, and Temp Table Support
  • Easy migration from SQL Server TSQL data types and syntax
  • Royalty free distribution - Licensed per developer
  • Cross-platform Windows, Linux and Mac OS X support through Mono


VistaDB 3 box shot

About this site


What version of VistaDB is used on this site?

This site is built using VistaDB!  In fact the exact version of VistaDB driving this site right now is:


VistaDB 3.4 (C) 2007-2008 VistaDB Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Provider: 3.4.62 Runtime: 2.0


This information can be found by executing "SELECT @@VERSION".

Don't be surprised if you see a beta or development build here.  We believe strongly in eating our own dog food, and that means running our database engine in production environments.

What technologies were used?


This site was initially built using Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft Expression Web. Of course VistaDB 3.x provides the data access. The AJAX control toolkit is also used for asynchronous callback to the server during posting of data.

We are now migrating all of this to Visual Studio 2008 using the ASP.NET 3.5 runtime as the engine. The decision was made that since we had not deployed the website yet, and VS 2008 offers some advantages over 2005 we would make the leap now (and hopefully not land on our sword).

You will notice that the VistaDB Engine is still reporting Dot Net 2.  We do not have a specific build for 3.5 yet as there is nothing to take advantage of at this time.  We will be producing 3.5 binaries in the near future. But even then the 3.5 framework actually runs on top of Dot Net 2. Almost everything is added as extention methods on top of 2.0.