re: What storage is right for me?

NickGravelyn — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:51:17 GMT

IsolatedStorage has existed in Silverlight and .NET for a while now. It exists on WP7 because of the choice to use the Silverlight version of .NET for the phone. We didn't bring the XNA Storage APIs to the phone because it didn't seem to add much value and most of the concepts of our API don't make much sense on that platform.

We did adapt the StorageContainer methods to match signature-wise with IsolatedStorageFile which should help make it easy to use minimal conditional compilation to make storage code work across both types of storage APIs:

#if WINDOWS_PHONE

public void SaveSomething(IsolatedStorageFile storage)

#else

public void SaveSomething(StorageContainer storage)

#endif

{

// do something with storage as long as it's one of the methods both support

}

re: What storage is right for me?

Jason Doucette — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:41:53 GMT

Good post. Thanks. It explained a few things I was wondering about. It looks as though IsolatedStorage was created for the WP7 since the existing storage classes/methods weren't really proper for it. I wonder if that's true.