Opening a SQLiteConnection on a binary stream instead of a file?

Question

Is it possible to open a SQLiteConnection on a binary stream without first saving it to disk? Surely there's a way to 'trick' the connection into thinking the stream is a file. I mean, internally that's what it's doing anyway, right?

Answer 1

Assuming you're talking about System.Data.SQLite from http://sqlite.phxsoftware.com/), then you can set the file name on your connection string to :memory: and it should create an in-memory database.

var connection = new SQLiteConnection("Data source=:memory:");