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    Encrypting your Credentials on Windows Phone 7.5

    Azure Security

    The last time I talked to you about Windows Phone security, I showed you how to encrypt your data and save it in Isolated Storage using Silverlight’s AesManaged class to create a Key and an Initialization Vector (IV) based on

    Rob Tiffany December 12, 2011August 19, 2016 Windows phone 1 Comment Read more

    Sync Framework v4 is now Open Source, and ready to Connect any Device to SQL Server and SQL Azure

    Sync

    Microsoft has brought the power to synchronize data with either SQL Server on-premise or SQL Azure in the cloud to the world of mobility.

    Rob Tiffany September 11, 2011December 12, 2017 Sync Framework 17 Comments Read more

    Consumerization of IT Collides with MEAP: Windows Phone > Cloud

    Consumerization of IT Collides with MEAP: Windows Phone > Cloud

    In this week’s scenario, I’ll illustrate how Windows Phone utilizes many of Gartner’s Mobile Enterprise Application Platform Critical Capabilities to connect to Microsoft’s Cloud services in Azure

    Rob Tiffany August 29, 2011August 18, 2016 MEAP 2 Comments Read more

    Consumerization of IT Collides with MEAP: Windows Phone > On Premise

    Consumerization of IT Collides with MEAP: Windows Phone > On Premise

    In this week’s scenario, I’ll illustrate how Windows Phone utilizes many of Gartner’s Critical Capabilities to connect to Microsoft’s On-Premise infrastructure.

    Rob Tiffany August 18, 2011August 18, 2016 MEAP 1 Comment Read more

    Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Uploading Data back to Azure

    Submarine

    Looking back over the last 6 months of this series of articles, you’ve created wireless-efficient WCF REST + JSON Web Services in Azure to download data from SQL Azure tables to Windows Phone. You’ve maintained in-memory collections of objects in

    Rob Tiffany May 3, 2011August 18, 2016 Windows Phone 7 6 Comments Read more

    What the new App Hub in Windows Phone Mango means for the Enterprise

    Windows Phone 8 Tiles

    If you attended MIX 11 or watched it on Channel 9, you might have seen Todd Brix’s session titled “Making Money with your Applications on Windows Phone.” In this session, Todd talked about all the great things Windows Phone users

    Rob Tiffany April 16, 2011August 18, 2016 Windows Phone Marketplace 4 Comments Read more

    Confronting the Consumerization of IT with Microsoft MEAP

    Microsoft MEAP

    CIOs are asking for help in confronting the tidal wave of mobile devices entering the enterprise and IT departments have raised the white flag as attempts to block consumer-focused smartphones and tablets have failed. The Consumerization of IT has been

    Rob Tiffany January 27, 2011August 18, 2016 Mobile Enterprise Application Platform 4 Comments Read more

    SQL Server Compact 4.0 Lands on the Web

    SQL Server

    With the new version 4.0, the little-database-that-could has grown up into a powerful server database ready to take on the web.

    Rob Tiffany January 17, 2011August 18, 2016 SQL Server Compact No Comments Read more

    Reducing SQL Server Sync I/O Contention :: Tip 3

    Primary Key

    Uniqueness is a key factor when synchronizing data between SQL Server/Azure and multiple endpoints like Slates and Smartphones. With data simultaneously created and updated on servers and clients, ensuring rows are unique to avoid key collisions is critical. As you know, each row is uniquely identified by its Primary Key.

    Rob Tiffany January 10, 2011August 18, 2016 SQL Server 4 Comments Read more

    Reducing SQL Server I/O Contention during Sync :: Tip 2

    Database Storage

    All DBAs know that Joining tables on non-indexed columns is the most expensive operation SQL Server can perform.

    Rob Tiffany January 7, 2011August 18, 2016 SQL Server No Comments Read more

    Reducing SQL Server I/O Contention during Sync :: Tip 1

    SAN Storage

    The act of tracking changes made by each SQL Server Compact or Silverlight sync subscriber can cause a lot of locking and blocking on the server.

    Rob Tiffany January 5, 2011August 18, 2016 SQL Server No Comments Read more

    Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Improving the In-Memory Database

    Phone 7

    About a month ago, I wrote an article intended to help you fill some of the gaps left by the missing SQL Server Compact database. Since your Windows Phone 7 Silverlight app is consuming an ObservableCollection of objects streaming down

    Rob Tiffany November 26, 2010August 18, 2016 Windows Phone 7 6 Comments Read more

    Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Network Awareness

    Phone 6

    By now, you’ve heard me talk a lot about the role wireless data networks play when it comes to the success of your mobile application. They are unreliable, intermittent, highly latent and often slower than they should be due to

    Rob Tiffany November 23, 2010August 18, 2016 Windows Phone 7 3 Comments Read more

    Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Working with an In-Memory Database

    Phone3

    In my last article of this series, you finally got to consume wireless-friendly WCF REST + JSON Services from both Windows Server and Windows Azure with data coming from SQL Server/SQL Azure. You now have an ObservableCollection of Customer objects

    Rob Tiffany November 5, 2010August 18, 2016 Windows Phone 7 3 Comments Read more

    Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Consuming an Azure WCF REST + JSON Service

    Windows Phone 7.5

    In my last two articles, I showed you how to build WCF REST services using Visual Studio 2010 that can reside on-premise in Windows Server 2008 or in the Cloud in Windows Azure.  Furthermore, I demonstrated pulling data from a

    Rob Tiffany October 27, 2010August 18, 2016 Windows Phone 7 5 Comments Read more
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