Chapter 6. Talking to Services
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Connecting and reading from a standardized service
- Persisting data using a standardized service
- Configuring cross-domain calls
- Working cross-domain from a trusted application
- Reading XML using HttpWebRequest
- Reading out an RSS feed
- Aggregating RSS feeds
- Talking with services in the Windows Azure cloud
- Persisting data to and reading data from the Windows Azure cloud
- Using socket communication
Introduction
Looking at the namespaces and classes in the Silverlight assemblies, it's easy to see that there are no ADO.NET-related classes available in Silverlight. Silverlight does not contain a DataReader, a DataSet or any option to connect to a database directly. Thus, it's not possible to define a connection ...
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