Welcome!

Silverlight Authors: Maureen O'Gara, Christopher Keene, Brad Abrams, Dmitry Sotnikov, Andreas Grabner

Related Topics: Silverlight, .NET, AJAX & REA

Silverlight: Blog Feed Post

Business Apps for Silverlight 3 RTM: POCO and Authentication Provider

.NET RIA Services July Update: Part 9
By Brad Abrams
Article Rating:
July 23, 2009 09:30 AM EDT
Reads:
 1,131

I have gotten lots of good comments on my series updating my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”.  Some customers have asked about the “live” version I have running on one of Scott Haneslman’s servers (thanks Scott!)

The demo requires (all 100% free and always free):

  1. VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008)
  2. Silverlight 3 RTM
  3. .NET RIA Services July '09 Preview

Also, download the full demo files and, of course, check out the running application.

Scott gave me a FTP access and a web server, but I didn’t want to hassle with setting up a database (though he did offer).  So I thought I'd use the POCO support in RIA Services to just get data from plain old CLR objects.  Personally, I think far too many of our samples show only Entity Framework… So this is a good excuse to show that off. 

So, back to your application diagram, i want to use this post to focus on POCO as a data source.

Published July 23, 2009 – Reads 1,131
Copyright © 2009 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.

More Stories By Brad Abrams

Brad Abrams is currently the Group Program Manager for the UI Framework and Services team at Microsoft which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that spans both client and web based applications, as well as the common services that are available to all applications. Specific technologies owned by this team include ASP.NET, Atlas and Windows Forms. He was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams.

Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 when he started his framework design career building the BCL (Base Class Library) that ships as a core part of the .NET Framework. He was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines, the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard, and has been deeply involved with the WinFX and Windows Vista efforts from their beginning.

He co-authored Programming in the .NET Environment, and was editor on .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 and Vol 2 and the Framework Design Guidelines.