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Reviewing your insurance is nothing special; in fact, it's a normal thing to do. I think what's wrong with our current society is that it's normal to think that once you sign up for this type of insurance, all you have to do is pay the monthly premiums and you'll be fine.
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The type master should also be saved (see the note in the b. Database Backup and Restore section). In the distributed application, the database is queried and if it is empty, the flow is directed to a page to handle the restore. Restores can take significant time, especially on the phone, due to the ...

Sterling will easily parse large and complex object graphs. It is important to understand the appropriate strategy, however, when you have a hierarchical relationship between classes that are defined as tables.

Consider Class A that contains a collection of Class B. Currently, Sterling doesn't ...

While Silverlight does come with built-in serialization, it unfortunately does not provide a binary serializer. Sterling uses binary serializes for speed and compactness of data on disk. Binary data takes significantly less space on disk than XML and JSON formats, even without compression. In order ...

Databases are the core type in Sterling you will interact with in order to manage the instances of your classes and types. Databases are registered with 3. The Sterling Engine and there is only one instance per type of database. Databases handle the saving and loading of data, deleting and purging ...

Database upgrades is a story that admittedly requires some work for Sterling. Currently, the suggested path is to version your classes using namespaces. Unfortunately, this violates the notion that you don't have to change your classes to persist them, but it is an interim requirement until a full ...

Sterling is an ideal solution for tombstoning Windows Phone 7 applications. See 3. The Sterling Engine for a tip and example of hooking into the Windows Phone 7 events. When creating applications for the phone, consider using settings to store relevant keys that pertain to data in view models, then ...

Serializers should be registered with the engine before it is activated. This is because the aggregate serializer is passed to databases when databases are activated. Failing to register the serializer at the appropriate time would cause the database to lose a reference to the serializer.

The ...

While Silverlight does come with built-in serialization, it unfortunately does not provide a binary serializer. Sterling uses binary serializes for speed and compactness of data on disk. Binary data takes significantly less space on disk than XML and JSON formats, even without compression. In order ...