Writing a Calibre frontend for Windows8/WinRT using ‘SQLite for WinRT’

While developing a Windows Store frontend application for the Calibre ebookmanager, I’m hitting several bumps along the road. In this post I’ll explain some of the bumps and how I’ve tried to tackle them. Basically they can be summarized as follows: How to access a Sqlite database in a WinRT application Circumvent file access limitation of SQLIte for WinRT Load cover files of each book Create incremental-loading Gridview using ISupportIncrementalLoading