Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 5

Creating a Data Access Layer Using the Entity Framework

As this book is focused on Silverlight as a technology, we won't be going into too much depth on database-related concepts such as database terminology and principles, creating and managing databases in SQL Server Management Studio, or methods of accessing data, such as ORMs, the Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, ADO.NET, and so on. These are considered prerequisite knowledge for this book, so we'll focus on how to actually expose the data publicly via a domain service, and then focus on how to consume it in a Silverlight application in the next chapter.

Note If you're not familiar with the ...