WinForms and local DB

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I've been doing ASP.NET and PPC apps for years now. I've gone back to
revive an old application that used Access.

I'm witing it in VB.NET in VS2003 as a WinForms app. What's the local DB of
choice to use with this type of app. Is it still Access? I'm really
spoiled by SQL Server and SQL Server CE. I've even thought how neat it
would be if I could make something like SQL Server CE local database work on
the desktops. I want a database I can distribute and install with the app.

What's the general direction now....could I slam a 750 record table into an
XML file from access and ship it for simple data access lookup?

TIA

Harry


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