Asking around the forums and getting great help from a few DNN experts, I find I'm still at a loss implementing Silverlight modules connecting to the DNN db.
Michael Washington and Steve Fabian have offered advice and help AND I've worked through their tutorials, blogs etc etc. For those with a little patience, please read on and advise me where you can.
I've developed a simple drawing tool in Silverlight as a DNN module (using the Codendeavors Silverlight WAP template), works really well and is live. This module does not access the db at all.
Now I'm looking at rebuilding old ASP modules as new Silverlight modules for DNN 5.6.2 (or 6.0 later), hitting our tables in the db.
So far, I have built a WCF RIA Service app (EntityFramework et al) along with a test SL app (again, the Codendeavors template). I never touch the dnn source code and only ever use the "install" version. I can run my test SL app. outside of dnn in a test page and all works well, hits the RIA Service and consumes data etc. Once I install the SL app module into dnn, it fails to connect to the WCR RIA Services...many errors noted but too long winded to put in here.
So, to cut a long story short, does anyone (particularly within DNN) know how to put together a WCF RIA Service (installed/running within DNN) and allow SIlverlight modules to access said services? Is the feasible/possible? All projects should be built as WAP projects and I don't want to recompile the DNN source if I can help it.
ANY help/info/advice on this would be useful indeed!
Thanks