>Sounds like you had the wrong book. None of that is required to connect Silverlight to your database.
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Is this something new to Silverlight 4? Searching I only find articles that say you can't use an SQLDataSource in Silverlight 3 and must use an external data layer somehow.

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>>If that's all there is then that's not bad.
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>>I had started reading a book on Silverlight 2 a couple of years back and quit before the end of the 2nd chapter.
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>>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.
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>>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.