Theres tremendous interest in building applications with Silverlight 2 butvery little material demonstrating how to build datadriven solutions with theplatform.... » 

Theres tremendous interest in building applications with Silverlight 2 butvery little material demonstrating how to build datadriven solutions with theplatform. This comprehensive tutorial teaches developers how to build datarichapplications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of dataincluding how to implement inthecloud data access options. Packed withreusable examples DataDriven Services with Silverlight 2 offers valuableinformation on data binding controls the LINQ data querying component RESTfuland WCF interfaces crossdomain data as well as Microsofts new ADO.NET DataServicesand the ADO.NET Entity Framework. With this book you will Learn howSilverlight 2 applications rely on data for binding passing reading savingquerying and presentation Discover how your application can call REST webservices RSS and HTTP services Design entities that can be passed to andfrom a Silverlight 2 application via WCF Apply data persistence techniques toSilverlight 2 applications Harness the power of RESTful web services such asAmazon and Twitter Learn how and when to use LINQ to SQL to query a datastore Retrieve and save data using the new Entity Framework and WCF Workwith the RESTful ADO.NET Data Services to move data between your applicationand a database Learn how to build RESTful services and communicate with themfrom Silverlight 2 And more. Written by data access expert and MSDN Magazinecolumnist John Papa DataDriven Services with Silverlight 2 covers all of theSilverlight data access topics you need to know including the realworldscenarios youre most likely to encounter. Examples will be available on thebooks website at www.silverlight2data.com. «