Question
I am planning on creating a new data-driven Client/Server application with the flexibility to have WPF, Silverlight, and mobile clients. I am already well versed in WPF and need to learn how to implement the back end. Everything I've read is pointing me toward using WCF + Entity Framework.
I have yet to find a realistic example of combining these three technologies. I want to use WPF's databinding to be able to easily bind to database objects in a way that avoids as much procedural code as possible.
I looked at this example based on Prism but it looks like it was never finished, it doesn't really do anything, it's basically a glorified "Hello World!"
Accepted Answer
I have done some digging and this is what I've found:
Karl Shifflett's Netflix Stuff Application (WPF, MVVM, Data Services)
IssueVision (Silverlight, MVVM, WCF RIA Services, Entity Data Model)
Popular Answer
Have you looked at the walk through below which just include WPF + WCF + Entity Framework only:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465161.aspx
In this walkthrough, you will create a WPF application that contains data-bound controls. The controls are bound to customer records that are encapsulated in a WCF Data Service. You will also add buttons that customers can use to view and update records.
This walkthrough illustrates the following tasks:
- Creating an Entity Data Model that is generated from data in the AdventureWorksLT sample database.
- Creating a WCF Data Service that exposes the data in the Entity Data Model to a WPF application.
- Creating a set of data-bound controls by dragging items from the Data Sources window to the WPF designer.
- Creating buttons that navigate forward and backward through customer records.
- Creating a button that saves changes to data in the controls to the WCF Data Service and the underlying data source.
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