I wanted to continue with the enhancements to my Mix09 talk ?building business applications with Silverlight 3 ?. In this section I am going to show how to get data from a REST based web services rather than directly using Entity Framework or Linq to Sql. Let?s focus on the cloud source of data. We will use the same sample from the previous parts and change only the data access part to go against ADO.NET Data Services as the data store. This pattern might be useful if you do not control your database directly and need to go through a services layer to access it. The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008 ) Silverlight 3 RTM .NET RIA Services...(read more)
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