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Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed
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Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

by Daniel Vaughan
May 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1152 pages
82h 34m
English
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Backing Up the Local Database

To transfer the local database to the server, it must first be copied to a directory in isolated storage. This prevents the file from being modified by the SQL CE engine while the transfer is under way. The viewmodel’s BackupDatabase method creates a temporary directory and then copies the local .sdf database file to the directory, as shown:

string uploadUrl = "http://localhost:60182/BackupService/UploadFile/";const string localDatabaseName = "Todo.sdf";const string transferDirectory = "/shared/transfers";string uploadPath = transferDirectory + "/" + localDatabaseName;using (IsolatedStorageFile isolatedStorageFile            = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication()){    if ...

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