Aug08 Minneapolis Silverlight User Group

Tips and Tricks for Dealing with Data in Silverlight

Scott Davis

Ignition Point Solutions

Scott talked about why you may want to use Silverlight for line-of-business applications. He asks: Is anyone aware of any good reporting solutions written for Silverlight?

When planning your Silverlight application, a design consideration is that everything is done asyncronously. Scott has developed a technique which keeps his data updated using threaded services.

WCF full duplex communications do not work in Silverlight.

In the demonstrated WCF communication, the Silverlight client sends a request to the server that says, send me updates since the last time I came back. This is done independent of the UI and thus the UI stays updated.

Aug08 Silverlight User Group

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