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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


Open Data is also known as OData. OData is a web protocol for querying and manipulating data. It uses the REST (Representational State Transfer) based URI syntax for querying and filtering data.

OData works over HTTP and follows a simple syntax, which can be used in accessing any web resource. Different operations such as create, read, update, and delete can be performed using a URI with query string syntax.

OData supports AtomPub (Atom Publishing Protocol) and JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) to access the data from different sources such as relational databases, file systems, content management systems, and websites. AtomPub is based on the W3 standard Atom (RFC 4287).

OData provides features built on top of AtomPub, which are for creating, updating, and deleting data. In addition to AtomPub features, OData also provides rich features for querying and manipulating data.

Windows Phone 7.1 SDK supports the following OData features:

  • OData Client Library is included in the SDK...