Silverlight & ADO.NET Data Services

Silverlight 3 & RIA Services ADO.NET Data Services
Brad Tutterow

History of Silverlight
Silverlight crossing the Delaware

Version 1 – Sep 2007

Version 2 – Oct 2008

Version 3 – Aug 2009

Silverlight & Data : Less is More
LINQ to Entities
System.Data
REST
ADO.NET
Isolated Storage
NHibernate
LINQ to SQL
Web Services
DataSets

Silverlight & Data : No Waiting
Data
Code
Asynchronous Request
Client
Server

ADO.NET Data Services Overview
Some data
Some context
ADO.NET Data Services
Client
Code
ASYNC

RIA Services Overview
Some data
Some context
Client
Code
ASYNC
Shared domain and validation
Shared domain and validation
code generation

Comparison & Contrast

More about ADO.NET Data Services
Server
Client
Some data
Some context
Client
Code
Entity Frame-
work
SQL Server
Client
Context
ASYNC
Generated
No Code*
*Well, not much anyway

Using an ADO.NET Entity Service
http://www.petesdiner.com/data.svc/specials
Returns XML or JSON
http://.../data.svc/specials(name=‘meatloaf’)
http://.../data.svc/employees?$orderby=LastName
http://.../data.svc/employees[Pete]/shift

HTTP VERBS

DEMO

All wired up
LINQ
Client code
HTTP
Client context
LINQ
SQL
LINQ to Entities
Database