Screencast: Silverlight 3 and ADO.NET Data Services

Here’s a short screencast that explores using ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) to provide data for a Silverlight 3 navigation application.  The screencast is just a bit over thirty minutes and is about 1/3 slides and 2/3 demo.

The screen cast covers

• A brief overview and history of Silverlight
• Overview of data access options in Silverlight
• Comparison / contrast between ADO.NET Data Services and RIA Services
• Demo showing how to
• use Visual Studio to create an ADO.NET Data Service that exposes and ADO.NET Entity Data Model
• use Expression Blend to wire up a Silverlight Navigation Application to Expression Blend Sample Data
• use Visual Studio to wire up a Silverlight Navigation Application to communicate with an ADO.NET Data Service

Download (WMV, 45MB)