With Silverlight 4 and RIA Services all but done, I thought it would be worthwhile to highlight some of the key features of the platform and tools that make Silverlight a fantastic platform for building business applications.    I’ll avoid gratuitous video and dancing hippos and focus on just the bread and butter of business applications:  Querying, Updating, Validating and securing your important business-data.  I’ll also use this to refresh a few of the posts from my Silverlight 3 era series.

The walk through requires:

• Visual Studio 2010 (or the free express version)
• Silverlight 4 Tools (includes RIA Services)

You can download the completed application.

I authored this with Silverlight 4 RC, but I fully expect it to work with Silverlight 4 RTM.

1. Starting a New Project with the Business Application Template
2. Exposing Data from Entity Framework  - In Progress
3. Consuming Data in the Client - In Progress
4. Updating Data in the Client - In Progress
5. Validating Data  - In Progress
6. Authentication and Personalization - In Progress
7. Silverlight and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - In Progress
8. Exposing OData Services - In Progress
9. Exposing WCF (WSDL) Services - In Progress
10. Exposing JSON Endpoint - In Progress
11. Working with Reference Data - In Progress
12. Deploying to a 3rd Party Hoster - In Progress
13. Workflow Integration - In Progress
14. Management with AppFabric - In Progress
15. Debugging Tips and Tricks - In Progress