Monthly Archives: December 2010

Windows Phone 7: Getting Started

In this post you will find a list of materials and resources to begin with while becoming a “Windows Phone 7 Jedi”. Hopefully, you know the very basics of Silverlight and C# .NET or Visual Basic.NET programming languages. Tweet

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Windows Phone 7 Serialization: sharpSerializer

Hopefully, it will be my last post regarding different types of Windows Phone 7 serialization. I have chosen sharpSerializer for today. I find this serializer quite interesting, because it is very easy to use and it is good at performance. … Continue reading

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Windows Phone 7 Serialization: Json.NET

After receiving several requests to add Json.NET (custom solution for Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight serialization) to my Windows Phone 7 Serialization Comparison I have decided to analyze this type of serialization. In this post I am going to demonstrate … Continue reading

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Windows Phone 7 Serialization: Comparison

In this post I am going to compare several ways of serialization in Windows Phone 7 applications. I will show how much time was needed to serialize and deserialize an object and what size did the output stream had. Comparison … Continue reading

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Windows Phone 7 Serialization: Binary Serialization

Many of you probably noticed that Windows Phone 7 does not support standard Binary Serialization (using BinaryFormatter from System.Runtime.Serialization namespace), like full version of .NET Framework does, so I have decided to create my own custom solution for Binary serialization … Continue reading

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Windows Phone 7 Serialization: DataContract JSON

This time I am going to cover DataContract JSON Serialization using DataContractJsonSerializer. This type of serialization is very similar to the DataContract Serialization described in my previous tutorial. DataContract JSON Serialization is mostly used by Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services, … Continue reading

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Windows Phone 7 Serialization: DataContract Serialization

In this post I am going to continue studying the ways how to serialize objects in Windows Phone 7 applications. This time I will explain DataContract Serialization using DataContractSerializer class. This type of serialization can also be applied to Silverlight … Continue reading

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