Jesse Liberty has posted a new tutorial demonstrating how to build a web service and Silverlight client application on top of a SQL data store . This shows off a number of features including LINQ, WCF, and Silverlight controls. Here are the major steps covered; some of the basic application functionality is recycled from earlier tutorials. Using a Silverlight web application project to create a solution with client and service projects Generating a LINQ mapping from your SQL tables Creating a web service to serve the data Creating a web service proxy in a Silverlight application Designing the Silverlight application interface Making the web service calls asynchronous Read More...