As promised yesterday, I’m publishing the slide deck I used as well as the demo source code I used. Stay tuned to get notified when the video of the event gets published on DotNetZone. /p> I had a great time discussing how Dynamic Data and ADO.NET data services work although I was pretty stressed out at the beginning with a number of technical problems (network was down, projector didn’t work etc) and catching up with some old friends. Looking forward to do it again…

I'm pretty often asked the question "Can I use real (as in coming from a database) data in my Silverlight application?" the answer is “of course”, although this requires a lit more work than any other technology (WinForms, ASP.NET, WPF) you could use. The reason for that is, that as you probably already know, Silverlight runs on the client, so you’ll need a way to move the data from the server to the Silverlight Client application. There are a number of ways you can achieve that... read more