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I have a WCF RIA project getting my data from an SQL Server 2008 via Entity framework. Everything is going well. However I would like to access data via a windows mobile so, as far as I can understand I have to create an ADO.NET Data Service. My domain service is called BusinessLogicDomainService.cs. Immediately after creating the corresponding BusinessObjectsDataService I write this: public class BusinessObjectsDataService : DataService<BusinessObjectsDomainService> { public static void InitializeService(DataServiceConfiguration config) { config.SetEntitySetAccessRule("*", EntitySetRights.All

I've just been toying around with the new WCF RIA Services Beta for Silverlight this evening. So far it looks nice, but I've come across a few barriers when trying to retrieve data and exposing it to the UI via binding. First of all, how am I able to get a single integer or string value from my service? Say if I have this method on my domainservice: public int CountEmployees() { return this.ObjectContext.Employees.Count(); } How am I able to make a call to this and bind the result to, say, a TextBlock? Also, is there any way to make a custom layout for binding data? I feel a little "limited"

I have two entity types: Document (has a Customer ) and Customer (has a collection Documents ) My query is to get documents for a customer based on either the customer's name or number. The query looks like this: public IQueryable<Document> GetCustomerDocuments(DateTime startDate, DateTime endDate, string filterText) { return this.ObjectContext.Customers .Where(c => c.CustomerName.Contains(filterText) || c.CustomerNumber.Contains(filterText)) .SelectMany(c => c.Documents) .Where(d => d.Date >= startDate && d.Date <= endDate); } When the query returns, I want it to include BOTH the Document and