XPO Team (DevExpress)

With v18.2, XPO's Session and other key classes ship with a set of async APIs, including FindObjectAsync, GetObjectByKeyAsync, CommitChangesAsync (which return System.Threading.Tasks.Task object). These Task-based APIs are important for both server and client programming (useful for long and DB-intensive operations like commits, queries, delete operations, etc.) as they improve server scalability and deliver a more resilient user experience, especially on mobile devices....

In this blog post we will talk about peculiarities of using IDataStore WCF services in Silverlight projects. As you guess, the main restriction is that all inquiries should be performed asynchronously or rather should not block the UI thread. Let’s extend...