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ESENT –JET APIs to create database in Metro Style App on Windows 8

ESENT –JET APIs to create database in Metro Style App on Windows 8- ESENT dll is a part of windows SDK and provides apis to create and manage database on metro style application there is two major choices that can be used to implement databse in metro style application: 1.        SqlLite v3 2.        ESENT – JET database model SQLLite3 is not officially annouced to be used as database engine on windows8. But winrt version is already available to play with database. ESENT is already the part of windows8 so winrt support is already their to link esentlib statically to use the application.  JET apis are much flexible to create indexed base database and can be used to create huge database with thousands of table and columns. JET apis introduced in different levels according to plateform like win2000, WINXP , VISTA and above. Most of structures changed due to unicode support and security enhancement. I have created database using esent  - JET apis to work on metro style app