More from my Mix09 talk ?building business applications with Silverlight 3 ?. Many customers have told me that they love Entity Framework and LinqToSql , but that they are not always able to use them in their projects just yet. In fact the number of folks that are using ADO.NET DataSet, DataReader, etc is very high. So I wanted to show taking my Mix demo and changing it to use the standard ADO.NET classic model of data access. This allows you to use DataSet with Silverlight AND take advantage of all the cool new features RIA Services offers around data validation, paging, etc. For the context, you can watch the original video of the full session The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008 )...(read more)
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