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This is the second in a 3-part series of articles about caching & Silverlight.

• Part 1: The client: XAP & Assembly Caching
• Part 2: The Silverlight application: Isolated Storage
• Part 3: The server: caching your result sets & writing a Silverlight cache provider 

The first part was about XAP & Assembly caching, which you can find here. In this part, we’ll see how we can leverage the Isolated Storage for caching.

You can download the source code here.

This is the first in a 3-part series of articles about caching & Silverlight.

• Part 1: The client: XAP & Assembly Caching
• Part 2: The Silverlight application: Isolated Storage 
• Part 3: The server: caching your result sets & writing a Silverlight cache provider 

You can download the source code here.

A lot can be written about this subject, and because of that, quite a few misunderstandings about Silverlight and caching exist.

Let’s start with a general definition of caching: this is what Wikipedia has to say about this technique:

In computer science, a cache is a component that improves performance by transparently storing data such that future requests for that data can be served faster.

The book Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook and one of its authors - Gill Cleeren - are quite well known to SilverlightShow community, especially after the recent SilverlightShow webinar on Data Binding by Gill Cleeren.

We would like now to introduce the co-author on this book - Kevin Dockx, solution manager for Rich Applications at RealDolmen, one of Belgium's biggest ICT companies (Kevin's blog: http://blog.kevindockx.com/) - who authored a substantial part of the book content.

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Exclusive to SilverlightShow community: order this book with 20% discount! Enter code SShow20Net at checkout.

With Silverlight becoming a growing Line-Of-Business platform, it is increasingly being used to build data-driven business applications. The new book 'Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook' by Microsoft Regional Director for Belgium Gill Cleeren and the http://blog.kevindockx.com/ introduces the concepts needed to create data-rich business applications—from the creation of a Silverlight application, to displaying data in the Silverlight application and upgrading your existing applications to use Silverlight.

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