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Will .NET RIA Services be the Silver Bullet!
I have spend some time on the Silverligth.net forum and in the .NET RIA Services thread.. and just created a replay on a post about RIA Architecture and design.. I have some concerns regarding to how developers are using .NET RIA Services etc.. maybe it’s not a big deal.. but I will try to share my concerns and made a copy of my replay and created it as a blog post. I look forward to your comments. To get basic understanding about about my view of a RIA Architecture and also .NET RIA Servers, I prefer you read my two other blog post before you read this blog post.
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RIA Architecture with Silverlight in mind
Rich Internet Application (RIA) is an interesting topic. More and more business apps are moving into to the cloud, and more and more will have better User Experience (Ux). According to Gartner Research, nearly 60 percent of all new application development will include RIA technology by 2010. Today we can use different technologies to build a RIA, for example, AJAX, Flash and Silverlight etc. When it comes to AJAX we will soon reach the top of what we can do with it, because of the limitation of HTML, Client-side scripts and the browsers etc. That makes Silverlight and Flash more interesting regarding to me. But what is RIA? RIA It’s an internet applications that looks and feels like desktop applications, it also provide most of the maintainability and deployment benefits of Web applications. A RIA client can have state, so to increase User Experience, the user can work with data for a while until it will be passed down to the server for processing. Because the client side of a RIA can have state and work with data for a while, it’s extra important to have concurrency in mind. Some other users can have changed the data during the time we have worked with our copy. When developing RIA Clients we need to have several things in mind, for example a RIA is often running within an execution container in the Browser, so people can hit the refresh button or use the back and forward buttons, which can be reload the whole app and the current state can be gone. When we creates a large RIA, we can’t let users wait for hours until the application is loaded and started, so we need to load views etc on demand, and split them into small “modules”. Developing a RIA is not like developing a stateless ASP.NET app.
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A different view of the .Net RIA Services
Some of you have probably heard about the Microsoft .Net RIA Services, if not you can find some info here. In this post I will show you a different view of the .Net RIA Services, how it can be used to create a RESTfull Service, or at least try ;)