title: Populate a generic list from a ria service
body: <p>I am using wcf ria services in a silverlight application. I am looking at creating a dashboard for my users using some on the telerik graphing tools. I want 3 different graphs but all 3 graphs will be bound to the same data just displayed in a different ways.</p>
  
  <p>I am not really sure the best approach to take. In my application loaded event do I create a generic list and then call my ria service to populate the list, I then could create some methods that bind the graphs to the data allowing me to modify the data display for each of the graphs or should I be doing it differently?</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to populate the generic list like </p>
  
  <pre><code>  void BusinessReporting_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
     {
  
         StoreID = Convert.ToInt32(App.Current.Resources["LC"].ToString());
  
         LoadOperation loadOp = this._ctx.Load(_ctx.GetTransactionEntriesQuery(StoreID));
         var data = loadOp.Entities.ToList();
     }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However no entities are been returned, why is that? I know there are entries in the database.</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be great.</p>