Taking a look at store data in Isolated Storage on the phone Storing data in Isolated Storage on the phone is critical because there is no SQL database which can run on the phone at this point. In this episode we will look at how we can store and retrieve data to storage on the phone.

In part II of this article I’ll demonstrate how to use save data locally using isolated storage, then update the database using RIA services once you’re back online.

When I did a search on "Silverlight Database" there weren't many results, and none of them actually mentioned a small database that you could embed into your Silverlight application. So, I thought I'd share a solution that I've used to store application data on the client using a combinati...

Someone posed this question (“Can you use IsolatedStorage in Silverlight as a more reliable browser caching technique?”) to me and I answered with my usual optimistic “in theory, yes” answer. Of course I had never tried it which is horrible to answer that to someone without trying it. In working o...

Each application by default is given 1 MB of storage space through Isolated Storage where the server is able to store client specific data on the clients machine. So what if you need more than 1 MB? Fortunately, the IsolatedStorageFile object provides a method called IncreaseQuotaTo() that allows a ...

Silverlight uses Isolated Storage as a virtual file system to store data in a hidden folder on your machine. It breaks up the data into two separate sections: Section #1 contains administrative information such as disk quota and section #2 contains the actual data. Each Silverlight application is al...

This article will show you how to work with plain objects in Silverlight code, and use attributes to have those values automatically persisted in IsolatedStorage, or a compressed version of IsolatedStorage. You can also use this approach to define your own targets, all without writing any plumbing c...

Maximize the user's IsolatedStorage capacity in Silverlight applications. This article provides a way to use stream compression in Silverlight to shrink your storage payload, by porting ICSharpCode's SharpZipLib project into Silverlight 2 Beta 2.

Isolated storage is a facility that lets you read/write (transient) data without worrying about other applications accessing this data. We first introduced this in Silverlight about a year ago with the alpha release. Its support was fairly basic though, and you couldn't store more than 1mb of data p...

Silverlight has a special version of Isolated Storage which opens up some interesting scenarios when it comes to persistence. One interesting scenario would be to allow a user to save a draft of a form so they could come back later and fill out the rest of the form.

Does IsolatedStorage work as expected under Windows Vista?