Serving Data Grids in Silverlight

Jesse Liberty has posted a new tutorial demonstrating how to build a web service and Silverlight client application on top of a SQL data store. This shows off a number of features including LINQ, WCF, and Silverlight controls.

Here are the major steps covered; some of the basic application functionality is recycled from earlier tutorials.

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Using a Silverlight web application project to create a solution with client and service projects
2.
Generating a LINQ mapping from your SQL tables
3.
Creating a web service to serve the data
4.
Creating a web service proxy in a Silverlight application
5.
Designing the Silverlight application interface
6.
Making the web service calls asynchronous