Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services

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# Posted on: 13-Oct-2008 18:38:27   

Any update to support for Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services?

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# Posted on: 13-Oct-2008 20:35:42   

Silverlight was not and probably never will be a target platform, please use DTO's.

ADO.NET data services... we planned to have support for that, however we in general see no real demand for such support, and we therefore decided to put the effort in v3 instead simple_smile

(edit: rephrased)

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# Posted on: 06-Nov-2008 22:00:45   

I am not a developer, but responsible for the development team. It is a pity to read that Silverlight will not be supported. We choose Silverlight for our new developments because we think that using Silverlight for RIA we dont need a Window or a WPF application any more. Only 1 code base to support instead of 2 (Windows/WPF and browser apps) I believe that MS will put more functionality in SL to support their RIA and SaaS solutions. I think that RIA will be next UI for Inter enabled applications. I hope that software vendors will jump in this SL development opportunity...

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# Posted on: 10-Nov-2008 09:54:20   

Support for silverlight means: there are generated entity classes which are usable in silverlight. that's not going to happen.

What you can do is create DTO classes (with the various templates available in several threads on this forum) and return those from a webservice, fill them with normal llblgen pro code (e.g. through projections).

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# Posted on: 19-Nov-2008 20:04:46   

SilverSurfer wrote:

I am not a developer, but responsible for the development team. It is a pity to read that Silverlight will not be supported. We choose Silverlight for our new developments because we think that using Silverlight for RIA we dont need a Window or a WPF application any more. Only 1 code base to support instead of 2 (Windows/WPF and browser apps) I believe that MS will put more functionality in SL to support their RIA and SaaS solutions. I think that RIA will be next UI for Inter enabled applications. I hope that software vendors will jump in this SL development opportunity...

Hi,

here is a business framework which allows to work with Silverlight: CSLA for Silverlight http://www.lhotka.net/cslalight/Default.aspx

It comes without pre-defined data access so it's possible to use LLBLGEN as the data access layer for it.

Hope it helps, Patrick

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# Posted on: 14-Apr-2010 09:41:37   

Hi,

Have you guys changed your mind about silverlight support?

i'm posting here because this thread is a year old..

thanks.

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# Posted on: 22-Apr-2010 10:49:24   

mma02 wrote:

Hi,

Have you guys changed your mind about silverlight support?

i'm posting here because this thread is a year old..

thanks.

no, we haven't. It's really not that useful to proceed with porting our code to silverlight as silverlight's runtime is very limited. So instead, go for DTOs.

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# Posted on: 25-Apr-2010 06:31:58   

OK thank you.