title: Generating sample XML data for Blend from Entity Framework data model?
body: <p>In working with MS Expression Blend, you can import sample data from an XML file to use to test your XAML and bindings in design mode.  My data model is fully defined in XML using the Entity Framework.  Is there any reasonable way to use that model, either directly or indirectly, as the source for the Blend sample data?  It seems like this is a fairly obvious use case, but I haven't found any samples of how to do this.  Is my only option to write a utility that serializes an instance of my EF classes to XML?</p>
  
  <p>(I don't think I can use a link to the live datasource, because I'm using Silverlight w/ WCF, and my data model is the auto-generated proxy classes.  If there's a way to hook Blend up to a WCF service, I have yet to find it -- though I'd be happy to get some pointers.)</p>