As I blogged about this before, I continue working on my Entity Framework Code First extras project on CodePlex. Today I added support for indexes to the functionality of the project. I bumped up the version to 0.9.4. I wanted an ability to declaratively express indexes on tables via attributes. So, I added a new …
As part of working on WinRT database I wanted to support ability to encrypt the data. The reason for that is that the data you persist using file system can be opened essentially in NotePad as long as you know where it is stored on the hard drive, which you can figure out. So, similarly …
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I will be speaking at VS Live conference in Orlando, FL on 12/08/2011. I will be presenting the following two talks. Working with Data on Windows Phone 7 I will talk about various approaches to work with data on Windows Phone 7. I will cover all major concepts, such as local storage, OData/WCF Data Services …
If you follow my posts, you noticed that I started up WinRT database project on CodePlex. I just published as small update to it that now support data binding to list based controls in WinRT. It took actually a significant amount of pain and research, including some posts on WinRT forums. You can read my …
I have been learning WinRT, new Windows 8 run time for developing Windows 8 application for a little while now. I am using my CodePlex project as study project. One of my goals is have an ability to persist collections of object into file system, loosely called database. I really want my collections to be …
CSLA for Silverlight is using MobileFormatter class to serialize and de-0serialize the data that if sent across the wire during client/server communications. General flow of the serialization process is as follows. Each object that implements IMobileObject is being asked by mobile formatter to serialize its data into a list of SerializationInfo objects. That list maintains …
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I have a CodePlex project for file based database for WinRT / Windows 8. You can check out this project at http://winrtdatabase.codeplex.com/ First step is to download the project and build it on your computer. Visit the download page for the latest recommended download. Unzip the source code on your machine, open it up …
I started converting my Windows Phone database project to WinRT. If you read the description of that project, you see that it is using Isolated Storage. There is no Isolated Storage in WinRT, so I had to practically re-write the entire project, at least all parts that deal with persistence. I have a preview now …
As I mentioned before, I presented at VS Live conference in Redmond, WA yesterday, 10/20/2011. I presented the following two talks Working with Data on Windows Phone 7 I will talk about various approaches to work with data on Windows Phone 7. I will cover all major concepts, such as local storage, OData/WCF Data Services …
Today I decided to setup Windows 8 VM on my laptop to make it easier to convert my existing project for Windows Phone to WinRT. The first one I wanted to update was isolated storage database. So, I wanted to document my experience so that I could do it again if I need to. There …
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