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...

The amazing tech folks here at Mix09 have already gotten a good number of talks published.  .NET RIA Services Talk   Building Business Apps with SL3   Silverlight 3 Overview , Silverlight Out Of Browser See the full session list: http://sessions.visitmix.com/MIX09/ Read More......( read...

Some folks that could not make it to Mix have asked about Scott’s coding demo this year.  You can watch the full keynote to find it or, I clipped out just the coding bit..    As you can see we have added a lot of great support to Silverlight with Silverlight 3’s , Navigation, DataGrid...

All great RIA applications have a meaningful client and server component to them.  Supporting SEO, or Search Engine Optimization in a RIA is an excellent example of using the client and server components.   It doesn’t mater how cool your applications are, if potential users can’t find...

A few interesting post on .NET RIA Services…     What is .NET RIA Services and why should you care? Kevin has a great post here that does a good job of telling people what is interesting about .NET RIA Services with out the marketing spin ;-) A Domain-Driven, DB4O Silverlight-3 RIA Great post...

  I am very excited to be giving the opening day keynote at VSLive in Vegas ..  I plan to be talking about the trends towards RIA based applications in the business world and how Visual Studio, Silverlight 3 , and .NET RIA Services brings RIA development into the mainstream!   There...

Today we posted a minor update to .NET RIA Services .  This release is mainly focused on addressing bug fixes we have heard in the forums and delivering on a few key areas… There are a lot of other long lead work items that will fall into future releases.  Download it today from: http://code...

While the feedback on .NET RIA Services has been great, many people have commented on the way we store metadata as custom attributes on “buddy” classes of entities. For example, in my Mix demo to get automatic validation like this: I had to provide metadata on my entity class on the server like this...

I just finished up the keynote at VSLive in Vegas.     I did an update of my Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 3 talk from Mix09 .  I updated to the latest internal builds of Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services late last week for this demo.  It was...

Vijay , one of the folks working on RIA Services recently posted a very good overview of how to do Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services.  I think this is an important benefit of adopting the RIA Services pattern.  Check it out and let us know what you think!   Unit Testing Business Logic...