Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook

Chapter 8. Talking to REST and WCF Data Services

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Reading data from a REST service
• Parsing REST results with LINQ-To-XML
• Persisting data using a REST service
• Working with the ClientHttpStack
• Communicating with a REST service using JSON
• Using WCF Data Services from Silverlight
• Reading data from WCF Data Services
• Persisting data using WCF Data Services
• Talking to Flickr
• Talking to Twitter from a non-trusted application
• Passing credentials and cross-domain access to Twitter from a trusted Silverlight application

Introduction

While WCF and ASMX services are very powerful and can address almost every situation, these services might be overkill for some scenarios. Sometimes, a simple exchange of textual information, preferably in XML ...