Sliverlight Applications and Web Services

Friday, March 14th, 2008

I am trying to write my first Silverlight application.  I need to do data binding, I already have a set of business objects written in an existing project.  Naturally, I want to reference that project and reuse the business objects.  But VS 2008 won’t allow me to reference the project, says I can only reference Silverlight projects.  Fine, how about reference the .dll then?  Same thing, VS 2008 complaints the .dll is not built with Silverlight.  Why?

It clicked in 10 minutes later while trying different things:  a Silverlight application is a client side application, it should never directly using business objects, which sit on the server side.  The server side objects and operations should be exposed as services, which then can be consumed by Silverlight applications.

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