Connect a database and a phone app

Vanquish-Storm · 16 Apr 2012 at 18:47

I currently have a Windows Phone 7 App that reads RSS links and displays them in an appropriate format to the user.

Sepperate to that i have a database with a table that consists of 4 fields. I want to be able to display that information using the RSS feed app.

Does anyone know how i can set the database up to work that way?

The database is an SQL database made in visual studios in an empty ASP website.

Vanquish-Storm · 17 Apr 2012 at 01:13

Thanks for the replies, does anyone have any tutorials on how to do this?

Sorry I am new to programming!

Vanquish-Storm · 17 Apr 2012 at 15:03

visibleman said:
Have a look HERE. Plenty of tutorials out there if you do a Google.

thanks, I did google but a lot of the tutorials were useless and the ones I tried did not work.

EDIT: in addition is there a method for connecting a database directly to the app bypassing an rss reader?

Vanquish-Storm · 18 Apr 2012 at 13:50

ZombieFan said:
Do you have a specific problem with the tutorial visibleman linked to? It should do exactly what you want.

And yes, apps can happy read from databases themselves - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202860(v=vs.92).aspx

There was no problem with visibleman's link, I am just looking at all the possibilities. I wanted to incorporate different forms of data subscription. I already used an RSS feed in a different section so wanted to see other options

Vanquish-Storm · 21 Apr 2012 at 16:58

kierenharrold said:
You want to be using SQLite, its a very simple command line DB and it works on all major smartphone platforms.

The benefit is that you can easily migrate your app to another platform as the database is multiplatform. You can run it on an iPhone, android or windows 7 phone without changing anything in the database. The DB is local to the device so your not relying on a service.

Any Tutorials on that?