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Connect to a Data Provider (Compact 7)

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3/12/2014

Before you can update a data source collection with new data from the provider, you must connect the Windows Embedded Silverlight Tools subproject to the provider.

The specific steps to accomplish this depend on the data provider that your application uses. In general, for any type of Microsoft Silverlight for Windows Embedded application, you must do the following to connect to a data provider:

  1. Add the Data Provider's Supporting Files to your Application Subproject
  2. Add Functionality to Respond to Notifications from the Data Provider
  3. Convert Data Types for Properties in TPropertyBag<Derived>

To illustrate this task, this section refers to examples for an email application that uses the Windows Embedded Compact Messaging API (CE MAPI).

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