Today at PDC09, Scott Guthrie Announced the beta of WCF RIA Services. As
you may know RIA Services is a set of end-to-end experiences that makes it as
easy to build Silverlight based n-tier applications as it is to build
traditional 2 tier apps. I am very excited about this release as it
represents a lot of great feedback we have heard from many of you.
A few goodies in this release based on your feedback You told us you wanted
to get up and running with the UI quicker, so we enabled the
“DataSources” window that allows you to drag and drop “tables”
exposed by your Domain Service onto the form and get meaningful UI to start
with. No more guessing about the Xaml syntax for databinding, or
incantation for layout, etc.
You told us error handling was not intuitive\... (more)
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I had a great time at my talk today at PDC2009. I was able to spend much of
the time in a demo… Here is a summary of that demo so you can walk
through it on your own machine:
What you need to get started:
Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Silverlight 4 Beta (now includes RIA Services)
Completed Solution (starting step and demo files) Check out the slides
Starting Off
I am s... (more)
In ASP.NET 2.0, we introduced a very powerful set of application services in
ASP.NET (Membership, Roles and profile). In 3.5 we created a client library
for accessing them from Ajax and .NET Clients and exposed them via WCF web
services. For more information on the base level ASP.NET appservices
that this walk through is based on, please see Stefan Schackow's excellent
book Professio... (more)
We have been working for a while to get a community site together where we
can aggregate all the great buzz, resources and discussions about .NET RIA
Services. We hope you enjoy the content we already have up there and help
us get more good stuff up there.
http://silverlight.net/riaservices/
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The data we work with in business application is valuable. We need to
protect the data.. sometimes by keeping up with exactly who accesses and
updates what data when and other times we need to actively prevent data from
being accessed expected by trust parties.
The web is increasingly becoming a personal place – applications often
“know about you” enabling users to having customized s... (more)
Brad Abrams is currently the Group Program Manager for the UI Framework and Services team at Microsoft which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that spans both client and web based applications, as well as the common services that are available to all applications. Specific technologies owned by this team include ASP.NET, Atlas and Windows Forms. He was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams.
Jacques Durand
Alf Pilgrim
Per Sjofors
Kirsten Lytsen
Data Recovery Services
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