Wei-Meng Lee has a fantastic post on devx describing how to manage data in .NET mobile applications. I had a particularly hard time trying to gather information on this topic and his tutorial on using XML serialization to generate custom user configuration files was just what I was looking for :-)
The article covers:
Introduction - Storing Simple Data in Text Files
SQL Server Compact 3.5 Database - Storing Complex Data
Creating a SQL Compact Edition Database Programmatically
XML - Configuration Files Using XML Serialization
Thanks Wei-Meng!!