When using the Silverlight Edition with ShapeFiles, the SilverlightMapConnector is necessary to serve map images up to the Silverlight client. Unfortunately, the SilverlightMapConnector is an ASP control. This forces us to tightly couple our Silverlight application with ASP. It has become a requirement for us to decouple our Silverlight solution from our ASP backend.
How can we supplant the SilverlightMapConnector with something else to serve up map images to the Silverlight application while still using ShapeFiles? Our customers are not yet ready to move to a WMS so we need something that is not implemented in ASP yet can still access shape files.
Is there some kind of independent web service or the like which can be used to serve up images instead of the SilverlightMapConnector?