February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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14.19. Network Communications
Normally in an ASP.NET application you retrieve data from the database server using the System.Data classes. In Silverlight, because your application is running on the user's machine, you cannot (and should not) connect directly to your SQL Server. Data is instead retrieved using calls to a web service.
When retrieving data, you don't want your application to pause execution, so all web service calls from Silverlight must be made asynchronously. For more information about Silverlight and communications, please refer to http://silverlight.net/learn/videocat.aspx?cat=2#HDI2WebServices and www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/546995.aspx.