How to have silverlight get its data from MySQL

Question

I\'ve written a small hello world test app in Silverlight which i want to host on a Linux/Apache2 server. I want the data to come from MySQL (or some other linux compatible

Answer 1

Silverlight does not have any capability to directly access database servers. What you can do is to expose your database operations through web services (ASMX or WCF, even non-.NET!) and use Silverlight to access those services.