Today at the SDP I gave a lecture on the different ways we can communicate with the web from Silverlight 4. We talked about the different HTTP Stacks Silverlight offers and the many communication types & technologies you can use, such as: Simple http requests Restful services Syndication (Rss/Atom) feeds ASMX Web Services WCF services WCF Data Services TCP communication UDP communication Yes, you can do all the above with Silverlight 4 ! In addition, we talked about different WCF scenarios that...
Just wanted to say I had a great time giving this lecture. I’m pleased to hear people learned more than just about entity framework. Big thanks to Noam King for inviting me to give this lecture, and to Guy Burstein & MS for the accommodations. I’ve uploaded the presentation, code samples (Both EF 3.5 & 4.0) and the sample DBs I’ve used (as .MDF files, you’ll need to attach them to your db to make them work). You can download the entire file from here .