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Asked: 2026-05-29T05:42:11+00:00

I am building a little app that has to communicate with a MongoDB database.

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I am building a little app that has to communicate with a MongoDB database. Of course there is a web service in front of the DB and I am not trying to access the DB directly from silverlight. At first I thought to have this service return BSON objects in order to have the client manage them.

Is this even possible? It seems like I can’t even add the BSON driver’s dlls to the Silverlight app (they disappear from References immediately after closing the Add reference dialog, which seems to indicate they are not compatible with Silverlight).

Or maybe I got totally lost and misunderstood it all?? It’s my first attempt with MongoDb…

Thanks!!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Why would you want to manipulate BSON objects on the client?

    I’d say: let mongodb driver deal with BSON, then convert data to a more usable format (JSON / XML or similar) and pass it to silverlight client.

    This is better because:

    1. Client doesn’t know about underlying database. What if BSON format got upgraded? You would have to recompile and deploy all clients.

    2. Client doesn’t know about underlying database. It communicates with the server using its own JSON (XML) based protocol. You might be able to even switch DB to MySQL and clients won’t notice.

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