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Petar Slavov
Petar Slavov

Reputation: 176

How to get files to WP7?

Let's say I'm writing a eBook reader for Windows Phone 7. Now the first thing that the user will need to do is add some books to his device, and since I don't offer a online book store or similar service, the only option is file transfer from his PC to the phone. Is he able to do this, how? Then how do I access this file. Can this file be placed in Isolated Storage of my app? I was searching around and didn't find any solution, in fact I believe that similar scenario is currently impossible but I just wanted to hear your toughs on the problem and probably some workaround ideas.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2086

Answers (2)

indyfromoz
indyfromoz

Reputation: 3763

I haven't seen any way to add files from the desktop the phone is connected to. However, you can build your own software for the desktop that uses a WCF service and allows connections from the phone. The phone can download files from the desktop WCF service. See a similar concept here, you can implement the concept discussed in the post the other way round.

HTH, indyfromoz

Upvotes: 2

Dave Bish
Dave Bish

Reputation: 19656

Would you not be able to download the ebooks using some kind of webservice/http?

(Obviously you'll need a website, somewhere for this)

Upvotes: 1

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