How to do Data Virtualization for online content in windows phone?

Question

I have an app which gets content from internet. those pieces of information are so large and can\'t fit in memory.

LongListSelector does UI Virtua

Answer 1

Basic idea of data virtualization is creating custom collection that can load & return item(s) on-demand (without prior loading complete set in memory). Following is radically simplified implementation (adapted from this blog post) :

namespace VirtualizingDataTest
{
  public class VirtualizedDataSource : IList
  { 
    public object this[int index]
    {
      get
      {
        string text = "Requesting\t" + index;

        Debug.WriteLine(text);
        return "Item " + index;
      }
      set
      {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
      }
    }
}

In the sample above, new item created upon requested. In your case, if the online source provide a way to request item in specific index, you don't need database. You can put logic to download specific item in this[] getter. Further references (various better/more complete implementation) can be found here : https://stackoverflow.com/a/6712373/2998271

Given UI virtualization working, LLS will request only sub set of items to be displayed (in other words, this[] getter won't get invoked for all index available, only those to be displayed).