+1 - these are all scenarios I've thought of. re: Ross' comment regarding just serializing and de-serializing object graphs. Sure...as long as you've got enough memory and don't care about memory consumption and cache misses etc.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Miguel Madero <[email protected]> wrote: > There're several scenarios, but some of the ones that come to my mind are: > 1. The typicial not reliable connection like using your cellphone as a > modem or a mobile broadband. I don't want my whole app to crash, I'd love to > be able to click save and even start registering a new client, even close > the browser go gome and submit my changes the next morning. RIA Services has > a good solution for these problem. > 2. The working offline scenarios. Google reader is a perfect example, it's > using Gears to allow me to download the content and read offline, when I get > back online it would replicate the state of my read items. > 3. Caching data. Most LOB apps have a big amount of static data, mainly > used for reference, like countries, zip codes and other specific to your > busines domain. Having this data always available in the client can avoid > round trips allowing you to scale, providing a better user experience, and > also abstracting your devs from async calls. > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Barry Beattie <[email protected]>wrote: > >> yeah, I'm a bit unsure of the usage. >> >> if it was a WPF or Adobe AIR app, with reconnect sync of data then I'd >> understand and appreciate. but in-browser Silverlight... still runs in >> a browser... which means being online .... >> >> the only thing I can think of is something I've done with Flex and >> LocalSharedObjects ... basically a "super cookie" for remembering data >> when next using the app. >> >> very, very curious of the use cases (methinks something interesting to >> learn here) >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Scott Barnes<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I do have one question, what specifically are you looking to store in >> > offline storage? In that poor man’s LINQ to SQL via isolated storage can >> get >> > you by but it’s got limitations as all would most likely know but as to >> what >> > you store and why, that’s got our curiosity into over-drive. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > From: [email protected] >> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miguel Madero >> > Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 10:49 PM >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: SQL 'in' Silverlight >> > >> > >> > >> > Yesterday on twitter Miguel de Icaza and others were talking about this, >> > they were mentioning something about migrating SQL Lite line by line to >> > managed code. >> > >> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Joseph Cooney <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a managed DB talking to isolated >> storage >> > in a future version of silverlight. >> > >> > Joseph >> > >> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Craig Dunn <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Hey everyone - played around a bit with porting an old c# version of >> HSql >> > (from java) to Silverlight. I'm not sure of the utility but it was an >> > interesting exercise - still figuring out the kinks in >> isolatedstorage... >> > seems to work fine 'in memory' though. >> > >> > post: http://conceptdev.blogspot.com/2009/07/sql-in-silverlight.html >> > play: >> http://conceptdevelopment.net/Silverlight2/SharpSql02/default.html >> > >> > the 'default' SQL includes some basic data & queries - you can Execute >> the >> > entire block, or select text to execute just like MgmtStudio... (just >> don't >> > habitually hit F5 like was doing during testing!). the UI is pretty >> basic, >> > so you must scroll with the bars. >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > >> > Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support >> > List address: [email protected] >> > Subscribe: [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe: [email protected] >> > List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight >> > Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists >> > >> > >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > >> > Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support >> > List address: [email protected] >> > Subscribe: [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe: [email protected] >> > List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight >> > Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Miguel A. 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