[Solved] Azure Synch Support

[bill]

Hello,

   Are there plans to add synch support for Telerik Data Storage (sqllite) and Azure table storage? Similiar to what you have available for windows phone and cloud synch tools.

Thank You,
Bill Spaulding

[Rosy Topchiyska]

Hi Bill,

Thank you for your question.

At this moment we cannot provide a specific time frame for the availability of Azure table storage synchronization support. This feature is already in our product backlog but we have no immediate plans for implementing it.

Let us know if you have further questions.

Regards,
Rositsa Topchiyska
Telerik

[bill]

Hi Rositsa ,

Thank you for your time and the reply. Ok got it for table storage! Can you please tell me if there are imediate plans to add any sync features to telerik data storage for windows 8? I understand the concept of romaing/local sqlite locations but what about synchronization with SQL Azure?

Thank You,
Bill

[Rosy Topchiyska]

Hello Bill,

In fact such functionality has not been requested by our customers so far and this is why we do not have immediate plans to implement some type of synchronization support for the Data Storage. At this moment you can try some sort of manual synchronization with the Azure table storage. For example you can try this extension library: Windows Azure Storage Tables Extension for Windows Runtime 3.0.3-preview
and manually sync the data from the Azure Table Storage and Telerik Data Storage.

Let us know if you have further questions.

Regards,
Rositsa Topchiyska
Telerik

[Manuel]

Data Sync to Azure would be a great feature, please add it to your roadmap!

[bill]

Hi Rositsa,

  After evaluating the available wrappers for SQLite I have to say Telerik's is tops. Nice work! Can you please help me understand the following? I need SQLite to work with Sync Framework to provide syncing between SQLite running on a device and SQL Azure. Would you happen to know if there is anything in Data Storage (in terms of your SQLite implementation) that would prevent that scenario? Can I expect it to work with Sync Framework in the exact same manner as plain old SQLite?

Thank You,
Bill Spaulding

[Rosy Topchiyska]

Hello Bill,

Telerik Data Storage provides an additional abstraction layer on top of pure SQLite APIs and implements Object-Relational mapping features. In this context we think that it is suitable to be used for syncing operations with Sync Framework as local storage for data. Note that you will have to decorate your entity classes and models with system properties required by Sync Framework(for synchronization purposes) because our Data Storage solution doesn't provide them out of the box. Unfortunately, we do not have an example that combines the Data Storage and Sync Framework in a common syncing solution, but you should be able to implement a client side SQLite provider on top of Data Storage, that implements the requirements of the Sync Framework.

Please, let us know if you have further questions.

Regards,
Rositsa Topchiyska
Telerik

[bill]

Rositsa,

Thank you very much for your time and prompt response.

Bill Spaulding