Question

I have an asp.net web app which holds its data in an sql server 08 r2 db.

I have a silverlight admin interface on the same web app, and I will have a win forms app which will need to add/retrieve data from the sql db. Is there a way I can use linq in both clients?

I mean something like linq2twitter, where in the silverlight or in winforms app I can use linq to query and update the data.

Currently Im thinking of just using web services, but the data objects are complicated and they’re connected to so many other data objects, it would be very convenient to work with them in linq, especially because the asp.net app itself uses a linq data context for its operations. Is there a way to expose this context over http or something?

Thanks

Answer 1

I think you probably want to look at WCF Data Services – which does pretty much exactly what you suggest i.e. it exposes a data context via web services (see also OData) and provides tools to consume and work with same via Linq