Silverlight will work with REST Services: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient(VS.95).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webrequest(VS.95).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest(VS.95).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.json(VS.95).aspx
etc.. Check out the various API's that are available, as we've made a few approaches to the problem. There's even an inbuilt RSS Reader should you want to read RSS feeds. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.syndication(VS.95).aspx) As to which you use under the surface, entirely up to you and there's no penalty for using non-Microsoft products with Silverlight. Obviously with products like WCF we've made life easier, but should you want to opt for something else, no harm no foul and I'll not frown upon you for doing it either! :) Barry might :) -- Scott Barnes (Rich Platforms Product Manager) Microsoft Corp. | Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog | Mobile: + 1 (425) 802-9503 (New!) Twitter: twitter.com/mossyblog | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Beattie Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 5:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OzSilverlight] Silverlight LAMP please forgive for saying so, David, but that's no real answer. that's only skirting the issue. if Silverlight is to be truly successful it has to play nice with other technologies. And that means Stephen deserves a working answer. meh, my 2c. you'd agree, Scott? On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:02 PM, David Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Stephen Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> Was just wondering if anyone had thought of (or tried?) a way of running >> Silverlight on a purely LAMP system? >> >> I use a webhost that uses Apache and MySQL. I'd like to be able to use >> MySQL for the backend but am not sure how I'd get around not being able to >> run my webservice on a non-microsoft web server. I'm assuming that I'd have >> to write a java (or some other similar technology) to get that working. >> >> So the webserver would of course serve my Silverlight app, which would >> make calls to the webservice which talks to the MySQL server. > > Wouldn't it just be easier to change web host? > > -- > David Connors ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Software Engineer > Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com > Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 > 189 363 > Address Info: http://www.codify.com/AboutUs/ContactDetails > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to > the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. > Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
