Yesterday at Mix we announced .NET RIA Services… We are very early in the development cycle for .NET RIA Services and we are eager to get your feedback and thoughts. The marketing blurb catches the key points: Microsoft .NET RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. The RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier. (shamelessly stolen from...
What were you planning to do March 18-20th? If it does not have to do with Vegas and the Web, it might be time to think again! Mix09 is going to rock ... I have had a chance to look at some of the sessions that are in the works (some of them haven't made it to the session list yet) and more importantly the new technology from Silverlight, to ASP.NET, to Visual Studio to Live\MESH work... It is going to be a rocking event. Teams here at Microsoft are work enormously hard right now to finish up bits that will be given out and talked about for the first time at Mix! If you are a web developers, you should try hard to make it! See you there! Read More...