RESTful Silverlight

11-05-2009 3:56 PM |

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I have an ADO.NET Data Service which presents my data in a really nice RESTful manner.  I’d like my Silverlight UI to match.  In other words, when my service sees:

http://... /service.svc/Team(2L)/Players

it returns a list of the players for team #2…which is great!  I have a Silverlight Navigation app which has a Page called “Team” which contains a TabControl with a tab which contains a DataGrid of the players.  I’d like to navigate to this Page / Tab Item using a similar restful methodology, so that:

http://.../Default.aspx#/Team/Team(2L)/Players

presents the team navigation page with team #2 displayed in the data and the players tab selected presenting the list of players in the data grid.  I know the key to this is the UriMapper class, but I’d really appreciate some additional guidance on this.  Any thoughts?

Re: RESTful Silverlight

11-09-2009 10:54 AM |

Thanks Mog,

 Yes, that works perfectly...now all I need to do to reflect the URI changes back to the browser, so that when a user browses through the Teams or changes the tab selection, the URI reflects those actions.  That way, the browser histroy will reflect the user's actions and the forward/back buttons will work correctly.  Then it will be like a "real" web app.

 -Nelson