Using SQL Azure in Silverlight

This exercise will demonstrate the use of SQL Azure, Entity Framework 4.0, WCF, and Silverlight. It is a simple application that allows you to track employees and also the department they are currently working in. The fundamentals learned here will allow you to easily create applications with a larger number of tables and entities.

This exercise will be built up in three stages. First, the SQL Azure database will be configured to prepare it for the development. Next, the Entity Framework model will be created which will automatically create the tables in SQL Azure for us. The WCF service will be created to interact with the EDM to select and create our entities. Finally, the Silverlight application will be created to display and create departments and employees. There is much XAML code required to display something complex, so much effort has been put into the stripping of the screen, down to the bare basics, to minimize the amount of code required to be typed...