Microsoft® Mobile Development Handbook

Summary

In this chapter, we have discussed some ways to store and organize data. You have learned how to use a SQL Server CE database in your application and how to use the tools in Visual Studio 2005 to create typed DataSet and SqlCeResultSet objects to read and manipulate data. We demonstrated how to create project data sources, which can be a DataSet, a SqlCeResultSet, or any object that exposes public properties, and also how to use the BindingSource control to link controls in your GUI to your data sources.

Finally, we looked at how to serialize DataSets by using their built-in serialization capability and how to serialize any class object using an XML serializer.

We return to SQL Server CE later in Chapter 7 and look at the powerful capabilities ...