Last month Telerik released its new LINQ
implementation and last week we released the new Data
Services Wizard for Telerik OpenAccess, which supports both traditional OpenAccess
entities and the new LINQ implementation. I will a walk you through the process where
you can connect to a database, add a new domain model, wrap it in a new WCF Data Services
(Astoria) service, and add a CRUD enabled Silverlight application. All in 30 seconds!
Step 1: Build your Domain Model (20 seconds)
Open Visual Studio 2010 RTM (or 2008) and add a new ASP.NET project. Right click on
the project and select Add|New Item and choose Telerk OpenAccess Domain Model from
the item template list.
The Visual Entity Designer wizard comes up. Select the database server you are using
in the first screen (SQL Server, Oracle, SQL Azure, MySQL, etc) and then also build
your database connection string.
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