Sorting data placed in isolated storage

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I know how to store and retrieve data using isolated storage. My problem is how to sort the data I want to recover from that has already been stored previously. All my data is stored in a single file.

The user stores the data everyday and maybe on a particular date he makes two entries and none on some other day. In that case how should I search for the particular days info I need.

And could you also explain how data is stored in the isolated storage that is in packets of data or some other way? If I store two data sets in same file, does it automatically shift to a next line for storing other data or do I have to specify for it to do so?

Moreover, if I want to save data in the same line, does it automatically separate the data in a line by some tab or inserting some character in between two data sets in a line or does the developer have to take care of this?

How are you storing the current data? we will need to see some code in order to be able to suggest a retrieval mechanism? What data is stored and in what format is it stored as? — FunksMaName, Jul 23 '13 at 15:54

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 23 '13 at 15:32

If the date is saved in the title of the file then you can use the following code to search for it:

var appStorage = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication();
string date = appStorage.GetFileNames("the date you are looking for")

In answer to your other question if you use .Write() when writing text to a file, then it will create one long stream of data, if you use .WriteLine() then you will write the information, then a new line reference will be added at the end.

I'm not sure as you weren't very clear, but just in-case, here is a general procedure for reading files from IsolatedStorage:

var appStorage = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication();

using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(appStorage.OpenFile(fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)))
    {
        fileContent = reader.ReadToEnd();    
    }

Sorting data placed in isolated storage

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