Download Sample Code The Problem Chances are that if you’ve done much Silverlight development you’ve worked with a few web services. In most cases, they are the primary channel for getting data in and out of your application. Fortunately, the Silverlight runtime has a scaled down implementation of the client-side WCF framework that allows us to perform most simple web service operations fairly easy. However, it is important to note that when I say the WCF stack is scaled down, I mean it is really...

Download Sample Code The Problem Now that we have Silverlight and WPF the line between Web Applications and Smart Clients is getting smaller and smaller. Despite some marked differences between these two platforms they both support XAML, they both can run our compiled C# code, both can call web services, and we even get our beloved Visual Studio development experience on both sides too! With so many similarities the temptation to build applications that span both platforms is almost too sweet to...