Adam you may have heard that with the windows phone sdk 8. Sqlite is now supported on windows rt, windows 8 metro apps and will be supported on windows phone 8 for local application storage. See the how to compile sqlite page for additional information on how to use the raw sqlite source code. Many thanks to the sqlite team for making the sqlite engine for windows. Using sqlite with windows phone 8 apps codeproject. Learn how to use the popular open source database sqlite for data storage in your windows and windows phone apps. In this video i will show you how to use sqlite in a windows phone application.
So in this article i will explain you how to install and setup sqlite database. The good news is that sqlitenet supports two different sqlite engines, according to the platform. Follow the instructions in the readme and see if it works for you. We all know sql server can handle large data, but here we will use sqlite, it can make your windows phone 8 application processing data easier, now let us see how to use sqlite with your windows phone 8 app. This portable class library for sqlite available for windows 8. This blog post was authored by himadri sarkar, a program manager on the windows phone team. Anyone can view the repository contents and download historical versions of individual files or zip archives of historical checkins. Its a wrapper for the native sqlite engine and it supports both the windows 8 platform and windows phone 7 or 8. This sample is targeted for the windows phone store 8. Sqlite is a software library that implements a selfcontained, serverless, zero configuration, transactional sql database engine. The first version of windows phone did not have good support for local database support. Vipul patel shows yhou how application developers can use support for sqlite in their windows phone applications. Sqlite for windows phone visual studio marketplace. Hey guys, has anyone found an sqlite port for windows phone 8.