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c#visual-studio-2010sqlitemsbuildportable-database

How do you create portable databases with MsBuild?

I want to store in my solution a project containing the database creation scripts. When this project is built, it must generate a database file, which will then be used by this and other projects of the solution at the run time. How to do that?

I know I can add Pre-Build task, but I wonder:

  • which command line can help me (maybe sqlite has a command line client?)
  • will it need that I create an empty database file before running the scripts?
Solution

  • You can download the command line client shell for SQLite at http://www.sqlite.org/download.html

    Then you can add the following Pre-Build task:

    "sqlite3.exe" %dbFilename% < Database.sql