Chapter 17. WCF RIA Services

Data-oriented Silverlight applications are multitier by nature—they have a client, a server with services, and a data store. As you learned in chapter 14, the way Silverlight handles network calls requires setting up asynchronous proxies (or performing raw asynchronous network operations). Sometimes, sharing entities between the client and server is a simple task; sometimes it's not. In general, the amount of code that goes into what could be considered ...

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