Disconnected API Across a Reboot

[Randy]

I suspect I know the answer, but I am an optimist. If the program using the disconnected API crashes or is restarted without doing the CopyTo what happens to the data? Is that inforamtion just lost? Is there a way of serializing it to the disk and retrieving it on a relaunched?

I am trying to put together my app so that it would work properly even with a long term internet outage rather than forcing the program to run until it is available again.

Thanks
Randy Miller
TransGuardian

[Alexander]

Hi Randy,

Unfortunately any information from the container would be lost if the application crashes. However, there is a way to serialize the content. Here is some sample code:

ObjectContainer.ChangeSet originalCs = container.GetContent();

XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(ObjectContainer.ChangeSet));
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
serializer.Serialize(stream, originalCs);

stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
ObjectContainer.ChangeSet deserializedCs = (ObjectContainer.ChangeSet) serializer.Deserialize(stream);

Of course, you can use any other type of stream to persist the content. Afterwards you can use the Apply() method of the container to restore the deserialized changeset.
I hope that helps.

All the best,
Alexander
the Telerik team