This release provides four new templates for developing RIA Services Applications. EntitySpaces can create everything you need to get started on your RIA Services application. EntitySpaces will create your DomainService class (including a partial class to go along with it to house your custom method...

Whether RIA Services is merely a buzzword you’ve heard bounced around or you’re a seasoned Silverlight developer you should checkout this functionality. When you combine EntitySpaces with RIA Services you will almost instantly be able to create professional quality Silverlight applications.

From the comments on my previous articles on .Net RIA Services and from the search queries that lead to those articles, a pattern of a recurring set of questions showed up and I am sure that most .Net RIA Services enthusiasts face the same issues. This post address a few of these issues

.Net RIA Services Metadata offers a strong validation framework that makes it easy to validate user input and extend the behavior of your objects through Metadata. This is an introduction to using the Metadata Model as well as a how to.

NOTE: There is an interesting contest to find an image in this. Check the post. Long story short, this is an effort to bring RIA to the SharePoint world. But not just RIA style usability, I believe we pushed the envelope even further by incorporating not only DeepZoom (SeaDragon) for ‘zoom in to ...