4. Data and Content
The windows runtime is well equipped to handle any data you want to throw at it. It contains components to deal with text, binary data, HTML content, and just about anything else you can transfer or store. Using WinRT, you can save data locally or temporarily or persist it in a special roaming zone that synchronizes data across multiple Windows 8.1 devices. WinRT compresses the data for you, serializes and deserializes your objects, and parses XML documents with ease. You can even post data to the clipboard to share with desktop apps.
In this chapter, you explore all the data-related WinRT APIs. You learn how to send data to the clipboard and store information in local storage. You see how various helper classes make it easier ...
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