Using ASP.Net web services in Silverlight 4 applications
In this post I would like to present in detail how we can consume .asmx web services from a Silverlight 4 application. Silverlight supports and “recognises” web services in a similar way that ASP.Net applications can “talk” to web services. One might say that .asmx web services are considered by Microsoft legacy software. I will not disagree with that. Sometimes we do not have the luxury (time or budget) to create the services from scratch. It is very difficult to convince your boss or client to create a WCF service that does something when the functionality already exists in a web service (.asmx). So if now, I have the chance to write a whole Silverlight application from scratch I would not use .asmx web services, I would use WCF. But as I said before we have to use and maintain legacy code. (
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