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Silverlight Server Communication
by Shawn Wildermuth
Silverlight applications usually need to communicate with a remote server. This course shows the various techniques Silverlight offers for remote communications.
What you'll learn
As a client-side technology, Silverlight needs a way to access data and functionality over the web. This course will show you how to access a variety of server-side communication using WCF, OData, REST, Sockets and more.
About the author
Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early ‘80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2003, he’s also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ClientDev Insider. He’s authored eight books and innumerable articles on software development. You can also see him at one of the local and international conferences he’s spoken at including TechEd, Oredev, SDC, NDC, VSLive, DevIntersection, MIX, Devteach, DevConnections and Dev Reach. He is one of... more the Wilder Minds. You can reach him at his blog at http://wildermuth.com. He’s released his first film, a feature-length, documentary about software developers today called “Hello World: The Film”. You can see more about it at http://helloworldfilm.com.