I\u2019ve been teasing out details about the Windows Runtime (WinRT) here at Microsoft\u2019s BUILD conference in Anaheim, California.<\/p>\n
WinRT is the runtime for touch-friendly Metro-style apps, in effect Microsoft\u2019s operating system for tablets, though it has a dual personality and full desktop Windows is also available.<\/p>\n
Microsoft experts told me that there is no client for SQL Server or other network databases in WinRT. To access such databases, you have to create a web service and call that. This is similar to the Silverlight model. The .NET Framework in WinRT will support WCF RIA Services<\/a>, which is one option for this.<\/p>\n If you only want to store and retrieve data locally, there seems to be a JET API, or you could use something like SQLite or roll your own simple database manager. HTML and JavaScript apps support IndexedDB<\/a>. All these options read and write data to the app\u2019s isolated storage; they do not enable free access to the file system.<\/p>\n LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is supported but of course that is only as useful as the data it can connect to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve been teasing out details about the Windows Runtime (WinRT) here at Microsoft\u2019s BUILD conference in Anaheim, California. WinRT is the runtime for touch-friendly Metro-style apps, in effect Microsoft\u2019s operating system for tablets, though it has a dual personality and full desktop Windows is also available. Microsoft experts told me that there is no client … Continue reading Data Access in Windows 8 WinRT<\/span>