Still have good fun updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo.  In this part, I wanted to consider how we might build the admin site of our site.. Because it is just for a very small number of trusted users, I’d like to get something up and running quickly.  I’d also like to share all by business logic and validation code between the Silverlight client and the WebAdmin site.

You can see the full series here.

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

1. VS2008 SP1
2. Silverlight 3 RTM
3. .NET RIA Services July '09 Preview
4. ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview 4 Refresh

Also, download the full demo files

For this part we are going to focus on building out a WebAdmin page using ASP.NET Dynamic Data.  Dynamic Data makes it very easy… dare I say trival to build out a data-driven web application.  The great thing is that it is super easy to extend and custom the application incrementally.  Today’s Dynamic Data builds on top of Entity Framework and LinqToSql directly… With .NET RIA Services support, you can now work with any data source (as I have shown POCO, DataSet, WCF, Astoria, DTOs) as well as model your business\validation logic in a common way. 

To start with, grab the DomainServiceProject from the ProjectTemplates direction in the ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview 4 Refresh download.  You can add this solution to your project or, as I did, merge it into an existing solution.  If you do the merge option, be sure the get the code in web.config, global.asax, and the DynamicData directory.