Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 5

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Exposing Data from the Server

By their very nature, business applications are highly data-centric applications. Therefore, one of the primary concerns you will have when designing your Silverlight business application is how you will expose data from the server, and then consume that data in your application.

For example, a typical Silverlight business application will want to request data from the server, make changes to it, and then pass any changes back to the server to be stored.

There are numerous means to achieve this workflow in Silverlight, but it can often be difficult to determine the best and most appropriate technology to use. Ultimately, WCF RIA Services is generally the best solution to implement this functionality ...