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Asked: 2026-05-12T19:31:51+00:00

I have a silverlight application which reads data from a db and displays them

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I have a silverlight application which reads data from a db and displays them in a grid.
As far as i understand it there are two ways to do it.
1) Read db with a server-side language, such as php, create a file in the server which you can later use in Silverlight to read the data.
2) Connect “directly” using Silverlight code with your db and do your job there. I have read some posts that explain more or less how this is possible, but i haven’t found a working example.

I really need to go towards the 2nd approach. Can anyone provide a simple example on how to connect and query to your mysql db safely from Silverlight?

Thank you.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could use the MySQL connector for Entity Framework and then connect to the database using .NET RIA Services.

    Whatever route you go you’re going to need to create some method to read data from the database on the server and return that to Silverlight as objects.

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