WCF RIA vs WCF in Silverlight
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Hi - I am trying to build a LOB application using Silverlight. But I am not sure what to use in the middle tier. I was thinking to use WCF Services only which I have been building for years but found MS asking us to use WCF RIA Services with Silverlight. I didn't find any reason why I should go for WCF RIA Services. Also there is not much documentation available on WCF RIA and as a developer I find lots of issues in getting guidance in building WCF RIA Services. Also I don;t find a suitable design to build WCF RIA Services layer. Any guidance on this is well appreciated. - SM
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Hi - I am trying to build a LOB application using Silverlight. But I am not sure what to use in the middle tier. I was thinking to use WCF Services only which I have been building for years but found MS asking us to use WCF RIA Services with Silverlight. I didn't find any reason why I should go for WCF RIA Services. Also there is not much documentation available on WCF RIA and as a developer I find lots of issues in getting guidance in building WCF RIA Services. Also I don;t find a suitable design to build WCF RIA Services layer. Any guidance on this is well appreciated. - SM
you can use the WCF Ria Service on The server Side of your Silverlight Application. the WCF Ria Service will provide data layer for Client side you can use the Ado.net Data Model or linq to SQl(dbml)to access to the database and then create your WCF Ria Service. :)
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Hi - I am trying to build a LOB application using Silverlight. But I am not sure what to use in the middle tier. I was thinking to use WCF Services only which I have been building for years but found MS asking us to use WCF RIA Services with Silverlight. I didn't find any reason why I should go for WCF RIA Services. Also there is not much documentation available on WCF RIA and as a developer I find lots of issues in getting guidance in building WCF RIA Services. Also I don;t find a suitable design to build WCF RIA Services layer. Any guidance on this is well appreciated. - SM
We recently looked into this exact same situation LOB => Silverlight. Watched the video on RIA and left in horror, it seems RIA not only wants the enterprise foundation but wants to put all the binding into the xaml. Note these are not mandatory but you need work arounds to avoid them. Avoiding RIA seemed a much better option. We opted for MVVM Lite with our own DAL.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH