Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2

Summary

This chapter demonstrated how to pull together several features of Silverlight 2, XAML, and RESTful services to create a powerful application that taps into a third party’s shopping engine. You use XAML-based data binding to bind the responses to the controls, you use WebClient to asynchronously invoke the web services, and you use LINQ to XML to parse the responses into local entity structures. All of these aspects are a great example of how these features can work together to create a robust application through RESTful services in Silverlight 2.

The next chapter discusses how to create RESTful services that perform POST and GET HTTP operations using .NET that Silverlight 2 applications can consume. The chapter will show several examples of how to create the RESTful services and then will tie them all together with a case study that uses both custom RESTful services and RESTful services from the Twitter API.