While off reading random blog posts on the tubes, I stumbled upon a post that describes a 101-level scenario of using lookup data in the DataGrid and DataForm with RIA Services. The author was struggling to find a solution for the problem and was clearly frustrated.

Yesterday the people at Microsoft finally "closed the Silverlight circle". This means that the final versions of the tools were released: Silverlight 4 Tools Installer WCF RIA Services (included in the Silverlight4_Tools.exe) Silverlight 4 Application Themes Channel 9 launch: S...

Here is a quick walk through of setting up your Silverlight 4 development environment.  The first assumed step is that you have Visual Studio 2010 already installed and any appropriate patches.  Then download the following in order and install each.Silverlight 4 Tools RC2 for Visual Studio...

The RIA Services provides a mechanism of exposing data and business logic for consumption by the Rich Internet Applications like Silverlight.These are basically WCF services with some additional plumbing which makes it very easy to develop and consume service from Silverlight applications.Since thes...

The .NET Framework 4 makes it easier for developers to work with services from their managed code applications. With .NET 4, the WCF technology provides several different types of services to start from, based on your particular needs, but they all share the same underlying infrastructure.

In this article, we will focus upon the development of the front end of the game using the MVP pattern; in the second part, we will discuss the database related work using the MVVM pattern.

I've been working on something recently that gave me a chance to try out Amazon S3 services. The first thing to mention is that I am using the SOAP API and not REST. Another thing worth noting is that I used a web reference rather than a service reference to link to the S3 services.

If you are using RIA Services with Silverlight and facing the problem that Web part or the server part of the project is not getting recognized on the client side or the Silverlight side, then one probable and main cause is that you are using Resharper and if that’s the case then the below solution ...

Using the shared code feature, you can define code that RIA services will project ‘as is’ to the client......

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 – some would say that it’s basically the new paradigm for client-server development in the 21st century… RIA Services focuses on writing n...

In this series of articles Zoltan Arvai will talk about building N-Tier Silverlight business application, why to use multiple tiers, what problems you have to face and how .NET RIA Services can help you solve your issues.

I’ve had a chance to look at RIA Services over the last few months and thought it would be good to clear up some of the confusion over where RIA Services stands in relation to other related technologies like ADO.NET Data Services and WCF.

David Hill (Architect on the Microsoft Patterns & Practices team) has been working on a sample application that shows how you can use Prism and .Net RIA Services together. You can check out his blog post at: http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/archive/2009/08/17/prism-and-net-ria-services.aspx In t...

Check this cool article on how to use the AutoCompleteBox control in conjunction with RIA Services.