In his next Architecting
WP7 post, Shawn Wildermuth discusses the lack of a local database store in
Silverlight on the phone.
Source: Shawn Wildermuth's Blog
Being able to store data is still really possible, it is just that any data you store locally is not necessarily in a database format. But maybe that doesn't matter as much as you might expect.
While not having an on-disk relational store is a limitation, depending on the size of your data, you can do quite a lot without one.
Here are the previous posts from this series:
- Architecting WP7 - Part 1 of 10: Navigation Framework
- Architecting WP7 - Part 2 of 10: Pivot and Panorama Issues
- Architecting WP7 - Part 3 of 10: Enough Architecture (or Where is my VM)