Advanced Bidirectional Silverlight 2.0 to ASP.NET Integration – Part 1

This is the first post covering techniques for both sending data into your Silverlight environment from ASP.NET as well as getting data out of Silverlight without resorting to a lot of new elements in your architecture. The goal is to use what you already have with the least fuss. You may think you need to resort to ‘pushing’ all data from Silverlight into say a service using WCF but that is not the case in many scenarios. For example, you may have activity which the user creates inside Silverlight 2.0 that results in visual elements you want to send out to ASP.NET for persistence in your ORM environment (where Silverlight has no involvement).