A lot of people have asked this question. The answer is there is no direct way.
Current Silverlight does not support DataSet object. I was hoping to see DataSet support in beta 2, but according to people from Microsoft (http://silverlight.net/forums/p/16297/54531.aspx#54531) that DataSet support is not likely even in version 2 final release.
So what should we do? In our application we hold our Data in DataSet from the Data tier to the UI tier. We don't want to covert it to a list of object with pre-defined properties in WCF before we pass it to Silverlight. In our case that is not even possible. In our application almost every SQL is dynamically generated.
One solution is to pass the DataSet Column Information and DataSet XML to the silverlight. On the Silverlight side we build a Dynamic Data Object based on those data wit ...
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