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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.

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Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook
Ramesh Thalli
Oct, 2011 | 224 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook
Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Data Binding to UI Elements
Data Binding to UI Elements
Introduction
Element binding
DataContext
Data Templates
How DataMode is used
Converting data for display
Building a simple app
2
Isolated Storage
Isolated Storage
Introduction
Saving user settings
Opening and creating a file
Saving username and password to a local store
Saving a background image to local storage
3
XML as a Data Store
XML as a Data Store
Introduction
Opening a local XML file
Navigating the XML file
Opening a remote XML file
Object serialization to XML
4
Using Open Data
Using Open Data
Introduction
Consuming OData services
Searching OData services
CRUD operations with OData
5
Using On-Device Databases
Using On-Device Databases
Introduction
Overview of SQLite Studio
SQLite Client as an embedded database
Using SQLite as a local store for the MyTasks App
SQL CE as a local store
McObject Perst as an embedded object database
6
Representational State Transfer—REST
Representational State Transfer—REST
Introduction
Consuming RSS Feeds
Using the Twitter API
Building a simple REST service
7
Windows Communication Framework—WCF
Windows Communication Framework—WCF
Introduction
Writing and consuming a simple web service
Building a service layer using WCF
WCF using ADO.NET Entity Framework
Using LINQ to SQL for creating the service
8
Model View ViewModel
Model View ViewModel
Introduction
Simple MVVM application
Using MVVM Light Toolkit
Updating the MVVM application
Index
Index

Object serialization to XML

In this recipe, we shall explore how to serialize an object and then deserialize the XML back to an object.

Getting ready

Open a new Phone 7 application project and save it as Recipe5_SerializeXml. Press F5 and make sure it compiles without any errors.

How to do it...

In the following steps, we will create sample data to save and serialize it to XML. We will then open it using the deserialize method and then display it in a list box.

  1. Open the MainPage.xaml file; add a button to trigger the saving and opening of the serialization. The XAML should look like the following code snippet:

    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent">
  <Grid.RowDefinitions>
    <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
    <RowDefinition Height="*"/>
  </Grid.RowDefinitions>

<!--TitlePanel contains the name of the application and page title-->
  <StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0"Margin="12,17,0,28">

  <TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle...
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