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Johnny J. wrote:
But then again: If I install a winform app on the client machine, then I can access a remote db directly without WCF, as long as I know the correct query string. Why isn't that possible in Silverlight?

You CAN have a Silverlight app go straight to the database, with the right security permissions and open ports on your network, though you're not really supposed to. Silverlight apps are supposed to access data by communicating with a server application, not by going directly to a database server.

So in short, the standard way to do it is:
Client-side SL App --[WCF]--> Server Application --[ADO/EF]--> Database

But if you cut out the server application and open your database to outside connections, you CAN do:
Client-side SL App --[ADO/EF]--> Database

EDIT: Ok, actually, I'm wrong about being able to do it that way... Silverlight isn't designed to go straight to a database at all...
http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/1350/3283.aspx[^]
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