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Getting Started: Silverlight 4 Business Application

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I would say that since the silverlight application will be built on top of ASP.NET, the back-end would be the same for the application whether it was Silverlight or Html (WebForms/MVC)

You could have a look at the CSLA Business Object Framework that includes support for silverlight: http://www.lhotka.net/cslanet/

Note 100% if its support Silverlight 4.0 yet, but if its doesnt I am sure it will soon.

Mark Redman 2010-04-25 18:56:41

@Mark: I have used CSLA for very large multi-tier projects in the past and am a big fan. In fact, Rocky's ghost writer for the C# version of one of the CSLA books worked on that project with me. It does seem a bit heavy though for what I'm trying to do. Still, I'll have a look and thank you for the tip.

Eric J. 2010-04-25 19:02:24

@Mark: Looks like version 4 of CSLA supports Silverlight 4.

Eric J. 2010-04-25 19:04:46

@Eric J: If that was the C# 2005 book it was great! Read it front to back and implemented our own CodeSmith Templates with some tweaks, have subsequently dropped CSLA itself in our architecture but with some simularities, we also found it a bit to heavy-weight for what we needed, but still recommend it where I can...

Mark Redman 2010-04-25 19:08:43

@Mark: Yes I think it was the 2005 one (would not have been 2008 in any event).

Eric J. 2010-04-25 19:32:23

Answer 2

+1 A:

To answer your first question, the System.Web.Ria assembly has been replaced by these two assemblies:

System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Server
System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Hosting

You can find a list of the breaking changes with the v1.0 release of WCF RIA Services right here.

Andrew Garrison 2010-05-18 20:42:12

@Andrew: Thanks for that info. Do you know of a really good RIA tutorial that explains what it is and isn't, and how to create RIA services? The tutorials I have found so far seem very much "by example" and each cover a facet of RIA, but I'm having trouble piecing together the big picture.

Eric J. 2010-05-18 21:04:27

@Eric: I too am just learning RIA services. The only videos I've watched are here http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/riaservices, and as you mentioned they are "by example." Please let me know of any resources that have helped you learn about RIA services.

Andrew Garrison 2010-05-19 14:15:15

I just posted another Question to ask the community what resources they are using to learn WCF RIA Services:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2866413/best-resources-to-learn-wcf-ria-services

Andrew Garrison 2010-05-19 14:31:14

@Andrew: Thanks, I'll follow that question.

Eric J. 2010-05-19 17:33:48

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