SQLite for WinRT Metro Style Applications

I already mentioned previously that SQLite will be supported on WinRT, provided an excellent choice for storage needs if those involve a need for relational database engine.  Tim Heuer blogged about how to compile SQLite source code, which is a bit of a chore.  Luckily you can now download precompiled binaries for both 64 and …

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Using WCF Data Services with WinRT

In this post I will walk through the steps of creating an OData / WCF Data Service and consume it from a Windows 8 Metro Style XAML based application.  I will use the following technology stack: SQL Server Entity Framework Code First WCF Data Service WinRT / Metro Style Application To get started you have …

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Windows 8 Metro Applications and the Azure (Cont.)

As I mentioned before, I am going to write the last post about integrating Windows 8 Metro applications with Azure. First of, let’s take a look at securing our service with Forms Authentication.  I blogged about that as well, and the only change is that I am going to use REST for authentication service.  Here …

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2012 for Microsoft Developers

In this post I want to summarize the tools and technologies that will be coming up in 2012 from Microsoft.  All of these is public knowledge, but I wanted to outline the technologies that excite me the most.  There are some conjectures and opinions of course, and some educated guesses.  I am going to include …

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Creating WCF Service with SOAP/REST Endpoints

In this post I am going to describe a solution to the following problem.  I would like to create a single WCF Service and expose it via a standard SOAP endpoint and REST endpoint using Entity Framework, WCF and WCF REST.  Then I would like to consume it from WinRT from two different view models …

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Getting Started with WCF Services in WinRT

I have been learning WInRT in my “spare time” since for a while now. My big interest is working with data in Metro style applications for Windows 8. In this post I will describe step-by-step instructions of creating a WinRT application that is using WCF Service. I am going to use XAML application. To get …

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Support for Roaming Folder in WInRT Database

I posted another small update to my WinRT database project on CodePlex. I added support for roaming.  You can now specify the location of the database, picking either local or roaming folder.  For example, here is how you can create database in Roaming folder: _database = await    Database.CreateDatabaseAsync(DatabaseName, StorageLocation.Roaming); I added the same parameter …

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Addition of IsDirty flag to WinRT Database Project

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 of commands objects to IsDirty flag on database and each table.  The code is quite simple, for example here is how Save command is setup.  public …

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