Starting with Raspberry Pi 3 with Windows 10 IOT and access db engine

Question

Hello All,

I am new here and the raspberry PI, Win10 IOT etc are all very new to me.

I have a system running which is made in vb.net and uses a serial box to read io ports. Information regarding this is stored in a access database. For a lot of reasons is this the easiest to use instead of other db's.

My questions are:

- Is it easy/do-able to transfer my current program developed in Visual studio to a program for the Win 10 IOT?

- I use a accessdatase engine plugin. Will I be able to use this on windows IOT?

- or is there another way to store data in an access database?

Who can help me getting started?

Greetz

Amateurtje

Workshopshed · Answer

You can run .NET apps on Win IOT but there are some restrictions as Windows 10 IoT Core only supports a subset of the Win32 and .Net APIs. When you build an app for IOT it gets transferred to the Pi as part of the build process. I've not tried it out yet but it should all be explained here https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot You are a bit limited for database options on Windows IOT although SQLite does seem to be supported Using SQLite in Windows 10 IoT Core – Chris Briggs' Blog alternatively store your data remotely.