Silverlight and WCF or not?
When developing an application to be used inside an intranet, do you think Silverlight and WCF are good solutions?
Can I use WCF Services or WCF Web Services to show your model to the client?
When using a WCF service, proxies will be generated by reference and you can only have 1 service reference for the service. How can I create an application domain model created under the same service link?
Thank.
A. Lampard.
Silverlight is now out of beta and WPF compatibility has improved. If your skills are generally in .NET and you want a rich web application, then Silverlight shouldn't be a problem, especially on an intranet where you can reasonably ensure that everyone has Silverlight installed. Plus, it works great on Mac computers.
For services, WCF works with Silverlight, and there are numerous examples of how they work together. Here's a video from the official site on this very issue:
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Your questions are too broad. It is very difficult to answer these questions, since, indeed, "any" technology is good for "any" solution. Otherwise, everyone would just use it!
What should your application do, how soon do you need to do it, is there any investment in the same or different technologies ... etc?
Having said that to answer your question: yes.
Not sure if I understood your second question ... not sure why you need more than one link per service ...?
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"Not sure if I understand your second question ... not sure why you need more than 1 link for a service ...?"
If you have, for example, a ProductService that uses the Product and Family classes, if you create a proxy for that service, you get: ServiceReference1.Family and ServiceReference1.Product. Now, suppose you create a FamilyService, when using this service you will get the Family proxy again, but in ServiceReference2!