Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 5

Summary

In this chapter, we focused on how you could consume data from the server using RIA Services. All communication with the server in Silverlight is asynchronous, which can make the process initially a little difficult for developers new to asynchronous programming. RIA Services provides two ways of consuming data in your application: a pure XAML declarative means using the DomainDataSource control, and a code-based means by interacting with a data context object directly. You learned how to add criteria when querying data from the server, and submit changes made to the data back to the server. In the following two chapters, we're going to build on the knowledge that you gained in this chapter, and focus on how you can effectively display ...