the user needs to send the workspace data to actual access the SDE so that's not really the problem. Anyway, what would the best approach be? How can I expose layers stored in SDE in Silverlight without making a (REST/SOAP) service for each layer?
I think this would be one way of doing it. The other way would be making an own WCF service and then return the Feature layer, but then the resulting feature class needs to be mapped to an object/data structure within silverlight.
What is ESRI point of view on this? What would be best practise without creating a service for each layer. We are dealing with dynamic environment where we want to display the files that have been uploaded to the SDE database.
I'm open for suggestions. Thanks for your time and effort in helping us.