Silverlight 2.0 release

It finally arrived .Now I am free to blog on it...
Download links are posted here.
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2008/03/05/download-links-for-mix08-announcements.aspx
Some key features I noticed in Silverlight 2.0 are

1. Databinding
2. Templating support
3. Styling
4. New controls such as Calendar ,DataGrid.(even WPF dnt have native grid)
5. 2 layout panels Grid & StackPanel
6. ArrangeOverride and MeasureOverride on FrameworkElements :-)
7. Linq
8. Easy integration into ASP.NET using <asp:silverlight/> tag without script.Dont know how to integrate in php or jsp sites since there is no <asp:silverlight/> control.

And lot of new features which will be discussing in subsequent posts.

So welcome Silverlight 2.0 and hope MSFT will make it stable in order to use it in production environment.

Data access in Silverlight by calling web service

Silverlight is a amazing technology which gives you stunning look for your web applications. But the released versions dont have support to access data directly.Also you cant do cross domain web requests from a silverlight domain.

So as a solution you have to go for some other techniques for data access as well as to get data from other web sites. Hers is a small technique which access web service. You can provide a data source from a out side service local web service.

Here is a solution which uses GETISD service from a webservice and exposes a local service

This technique employs a local web service to access data from out side .Silverlight application will be communicating to this local service only.


Download sample here