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Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook

By : Ramesh Thalli
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Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook

By: Ramesh Thalli

Overview of this book

Windows Phone 7.5 Mango contains support for apps written in Silverlight or XNA. These apps can store data on the device, and also load and manipulate data from "the cloud" and other web services.This Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook has a range of recipes to help you apply data handling concepts. You will be able to apply the knowledge gained from these recipes to build your own apps effectively. This Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook starts with data binding concepts at the UI layer and then shows different ways of saving data locally and externally in databases. The book ends with a look at the popular MVVM software design pattern. The recipes contained in this book will make you an expert in the areas of data access and storage.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Windows Communication Framework (WCF) is a unifying technology that includes various service technologies and provides one interface under one service. WCF is the Microsoft technology to realize the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) vision. WCF is a very flexible technology that can be implemented as a Windows Service. It can be consumed by different clients like Windows forms, Silverlight applications, and ASP.NET pages.

This chapter will introduce how to create a service using WCF and then consume it in Phone 7 apps. We will cover different options available to access the data layer. We will learn how the Entity Framework or (EF) can be used and then LINQ to SQL technologies.