Tag: 'ria service'
Url: http://wilderminds.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/RiaXBoxGames.zip
I've said much about my opinion of Silverlight data access. Currently this is Web Services, WCF Data Services and WCF RIA Services. Let's talk about Data Services and RIA Services and how they are related:
Url: http://wilderminds.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/riaxboxgames.zip
Url: http://wilderminds.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/RiaXboxGames.zip
Url: http://wilderminds.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/riaxboxgames.zip
If you're a regular reader of my blog, you'll probably remember my pithy blog post where I stated that "It all depends..." to the question "Which Data Access Should I Use for Silverlight 3?" The reality is that much like the similar question I am confronted with at user groups for the past decade ("What data access should I use in my .NET app?"). The reasons for picking a strategy are wide and varied so I will not try to analyze all possible outcomes, but I think the different strategies need to be explained better.
As RIA Services is plodding towards a release, many people are looking at it to help them with validation of data in Silverlight. Using this validation in Silverlight 3 is pretty straightforward but there are some caveats. I want to show you under the covers so you understand what is happening. In this first part of the series, let's look at what it means to use validation from the outside.
Url: http://www.silverlightdata.com
Url: http://wilderminds.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/MVVMExample_RIA...
As regular readers of my blog know (RIA Services Concerns Squashed), I have been a lukewarm supporter of RIA Services for Silverlight. As many of you know, Brad Abrams and company have come through with their latest release (RIA Services Preview July '09) with lots of changes I've been hoping for. Honestly I haven't had time to look at the new build (probably this weekend), but I am hopeful of its overall direction. I am still somewhat tentitive about some of the basic behavior of the framework but I will hold my tongue until I have more time to dive deeper into the code.
Url: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/03/19/...