Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies
Author: Andrea Boschin
Price: $0.99 
Formats: PDF, Word, EPUB, MOBI. All source code added to the downloadable package.
Number of pages: 29
Release date: September 2011
This e-book collects all 5 parts of SilverlightShow article series 'Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies' together with source code.
From the author: In these five
chapters I've deeply explored the tools and the network connectivity scenarios
about security and availability. Windows Phone is for sure an effective
platform that provides a good environment to access resources with a wide set
of tools and, as Microsoft usually does, it is also simple to use. There
are only a bunch of things you have to take care of, and it is important that
you make the right choices.
Chapter 1: WebClient Starting from the simplest
Handling Errors and Cancellation
Handling download progress
Advanced topics: Headers, Verbs, Credentials and Cookies
Conclusion
Chapter 2: HttpWebRequest
Errors handling and Aborting a call
Download and Upload progress
Again on Headers, Verbs, Credentials and Cookies
Making a choice
Chapter 3: Web Services A, B, C...
Consuming the Web Service
Handling errors and call cancellation
Configure for Binary XML binding
Using Cookies and Credentials
A step forward
Chapter 4: Security
Unsecure out-of-the-box
Using SSL endpoints with WCF
Authenticating the user
Storing credentials
A side note
Chapter 5: Connection detection and bandwidth
Being aware of the network
Plan for bandwidth
Implementing a simple watchdog
Conclusion
About the author:
Andrea Boschin is from Italy and currently lives and works in Treviso, a beautiful town near Venice. He started to work in the IT relatively late after doing some various jobs like graphic designer and school teacher. Finally he started to work into the web and learned by himself to program in VB and ASP and later in C# and ASP.NET. Since the start of his work, Andrea found he likes to learn new technologies and take them into the real world. This happened with ASP.NET, the source of his first two MVP awards, and recently with Silverlight, that he started to use from the v1.0 in some real projects.