A while ago, SilverlightShow author Samidip Basu started an article series showing the 8 common tips & tricks towards developing real-world Windows 8 Metro apps.
And today, he continues with an article discussing the various data persistence mechanisms available to Windows 8 Store apps and how to leverage different checkpoints in the Application’s Lifecycle to save your content:
From the author:
It is not by chance that the topics of persisting data in Windows 8 Store Apps and the Application Lifecycle Management have been chosen together; they are very much inter-related and the timing of actions matter. Data – whether application or user specific, is gold & needs to persisted correctly, across uses of the same application. Application lifecycle, on the other hand, deals with all the states that a Windows 8 App goes through in between launch & termination. It is this lifecycle that exposes checkpoints where we App developers get chances to persist our data correctly. Let’s explore our options in the C#/XAML stack ..
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