What to use in creating a hand held database application

Question

What program/programming language would be ideal for creating an Access like database on a Windows 5 CE hand held scanner?

We have tried Visual CE but it is not really something we can work with. Ultimately we would love to build a system where we scan a bar code, select a user from a drop down list, select basic options of division, location and moving from one location to another. Access would be perfect for this, but I cannot seem to find anything comparable.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

On a barcode scanner (like the symbol technology ones) running windows CE. You can easily use Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 and do your development in VB.net or C# (Though it requires at least the professional version of these annoyingly). For a database backend, there is a SQl Server Ce that is a smaller version of SQL server designed to run on a ce device.

Answer 2

I would use SQLite as the database backend for your application. It works well in embedded devices. It is widely used and you can get professional support.