>Create a SQLDataSource. Put the results into a DataGrid. Spcify the format the changes to columns in a template file. Done. Easy. All built in.

If that's all there is then that's not bad.

I had started reading a book on Silverlight 2 a couple of years back and quit before the end of the 2nd chapter.

Than I read a couple of tutorials on Silverlight 3 that immediatly threw WCF/EF/nHibernate/god knows what else in as *the* means to get to my data. I could care less about objectified data frameworks - all I want to do is talk to my SQL database fairly directly. end of my attention span on those tutorials.

If I can do an SQLDatasource the roughly the same way as in ASP.NET that works for me. I guess I have to take another look.

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>>OK. So I have a SQL database that has data I want to show in a grid along with several stored procedures I need to run and get results from.
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>>In ASP.NET I create an SQLDataSource for my grid and make any formatting changes to columns I want. I create SQLCommand objects to handle my stored procedure calls when needed. I do this from the ASPX and the vb editors. Done. Easy. All built in.
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>>How do I do that in Silverlight or WPF?