Wow – I can’t believe it has already been 13 years at Microsoft.  I have had a great time here and learned so much from the smart and passionate people I work with as well as the incredible developer community around .NET.  But I have decided...

Continuing in our series , I wanted to touch on how a RIA Services can be exposed  your service in JSON .  This is very handy for Ajax clients.   The great thing is that enabling the JSON endpoint is that it requires NO changes whatsoever...

Continuing in our series , I wanted to touch on how a RIA Services can be exposed as a Soap\WSDL service. This is very useful if you want to enable the exact same business logic\data access logic is available to clients other than Silverlight. For example...

To continue our series ,  In real business applications our data is often very valuable and as such we need to know who is accessing what data and control certain data access to only users with privilege.  Luckily this is very easy to do with...

I continue to be impressed with the quality of .NET Developers in Israel.. we had a full house last night for a 2+ hour presentation on building business applications with Silverlight and RIA Services.   The audience was very engaged and had...

I thought it would be worthwhile to produce an index for the (very) occasional series I have on giving tips to PMs at Microsoft. PM Tip #10: Interview Tips for Landing a Great Program Management Job PM tip# 11: Information is the Currency of Program...

  To continue our series let’s look at data validation our business applications. Updating data is great, but when you enable data update you often need to check the data to ensure it is valid.  RIA Services as clean, prescriptive pattern for...

I had a great time today at Developer Academy 4 . It was in a beautiful part of Tel Aviv. The weather was great and the food fantastic. They had well over 1,000 paid attendees, so the house was PACKED. Dev Academy’s page on Facebook . Including some pictures...

To continue our series , let’s look at localizing our business applications.  In today’s global village, it is often no longer OK to support only one language.   Many real world business applications need to support multiple languages. ...

I had a great time today in my Mix2010 session on SEO for Silverlight .   Update: You can watch the video here:   Or download the video .   You can find all the slides (more than I was able to cover in the talk) here .  and the...

To continue our series , let’s look at SEO and Silverlight.  The vast majority of web traffic is driven by search. Search engines are the first stop for many users on the public internet and is increasingly so in corporate environments as well. ...

To continue our series , let’s look at updating the data.  I have created a Plates.xaml page with very similar structure to the above.    For details on how I created this page, check out my PDC 09 demo walk through.    ...

OData is an emerging set of extensions for the ATOM protocol that makes it easier to share data over the web. To show off OData in RIA Services, let’s continue our series .       We think it is very interesting to expose...

To continue our series , let’s see where the fun comes in my look at how easy that is to consume from the client.  First just to help you understand what is happening behind the covers, let’s look at a code-behind solution.  In View\Home.xaml...

To continue our series I wanted to look next at how to expose your data from the server side of your application. The interesting data in your business applications come from a wide variety of data sources. From a SQL Database, from Oracle DB, from...

To kick off our series, I wanted to focus on our goal of helping you focus on your business, not plumbing code.  The first place you will see this in the pre-build components in the Business Application Template.  It describes a prescriptive...

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...

At Mix10 this morning in Vegas ScottGu announced that Silverlight 4 and RIA Services RC are available for download now!  These bits work great with VS2010 RC .  We have some great videos, and updated samples already posted on http://silverlight...

My team has been doing a little thinking recently about the “services” space.  Basically I have been trying to figure out how folks think about accessing data and business logic across tiers.  What are the ty pes of development projects are...

Dan Wahlin has a great introductory article on RIA Services in Dr. Dobbs and in Information Weekly . Enjoy!

Some folks have mentioned to me that they are having trouble getting some of my samples to work. And in fact, just the other day, I ran into a problem getting my own samples to work. It turns out to be a problem with the way windows treats the sample...

Bytes by MSDN is doing a bunch of really interesting interviews with folks behind the technology.   In this interview I talked to Billy Hollis about Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010. Tune in with Brad Abrams and Billy Hollis as they discuss...

There are lots of reason you may need to customize the access to given fields within an entity.  For example, HIPPA compliance requires that some data not be exposed to only employees with a need to know.   It is often not sufficient to...

I had a great time at my talk  PDC2009 talk, but i was disappointed that I could not demo in both C# and VB… So here is the next best thing: A full play-by-play of the demo, but all in VB!   Enjoy. What you need to get started: Visual Studio...

Some of you likely noticed that my PDC09 demo included a stubbed out Search function that I didn’t really get to walkthrough during the talk.   I thought I’d do a blog post showing how it is done. To get started you need: Visual Studio 2010...