After reading some other posts, I think I may have been under an incorrect assumption. Hopefully, somebody can help clarify it for me.

The original concept I was working under...

John,

Not sure if this will help, but I connect to SSCE in a C# application by using this connection string:

"Provider=Microsoft.SQLSERVER.CE.OLEDB.3.5; Data Source=xxx.sdf"

Hope this helps.

Ron