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I've got a remote database (specifically, PostgreSQL) that I need to connect to and do work on from Windows Phone 8. I tried installing npgsql.dll in my solution for the project, but as it turns out, the .dll doesn't seem to be compatible with the version of .NET that Windows Phone 8 uses - it wants .NET 4.5, but apparently, the reduced version that Windows Phone uses doesn't satisfy the install requirements on NuGet.

Google-fu comes up with nothing for me; most of it is about writing to SQLite databases on the device itself.

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  • Are you trying to directly connect a WP8 application to a remote DB? No 3-tier architecture?
    – ken2k
    Commented Nov 15, 2013 at 17:47
  • ken2k, it's for a few class projects. This is sort of a prototype, I suppose, and simpler is better, so I'm going for a direct connection.
    – nerdenator
    Commented Nov 15, 2013 at 17:48
  • Hmmmmm, we don't have support for WP8 right now. We would need to check our api calls and restrict it to use the WP8 subset. This may take a while. Sorry for that. :( If you have experience with WP8 and would like to help us port Npgsql to run on it, please drop me a mail (francisco at npgsql dot org) or better yet, participate in our user forums: forums.npgsql.org and github: github.com/npgsql/Npgsql Thanks in advance.
    – Francisco Junior
    Commented Nov 16, 2013 at 2:26

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You will have to write some kind of a web service to encapsulate the PostgreSQL database and make the Windows Phone app communicate with it

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