Question

I’ve got a WCF web call which returns the result of a SQL Command.

However this SQL Command is dynamic so i don’t know how many columns and what data types there are going to be.

How do i the results over WCF to a Silverlight application?

(Btw i then want to be able to put this data into a data grid)

Thanks

Answer 1

Name    Age Height  Income
Adam    50  175     88
Paul    20  166     75
Ranj    19  188     69
Omar    25  200     45

Becomes:

Key Attribute   Value
Adam    Age         50
Adam    Height      175
Adam    Income      88
Paul    Age         20
Paul    Height      175
Paul    Income      75

Etc.

Basically you flatten a data table with an arbitrary number of columns into a data table that will only ever have 3 columns (or 4 if you want to include the data type).