制作Silverlight & Regular .NET REST客户端最便捷的方式是什么

I'm trying to get a Server application to expose some status information using WCF. In particular I'm after using WCF services with RESTful "API". I'm hitting somewhat of a wall when it comes to consuming the REST api from a silverlight app/page that I want to have as an additional type of client...I'm trying to get a Server application to expos