It has come to my attention that we haven’t published any good resources on an important feature of RIA Services – our integration with ASP.NET output caching . This is a shame, since output caching can greatly improve the performance of your application. This post will explain the support...

Our team has just released WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta and WCF RIA Services Toolkit October 2010 ! You can also access these download links from http://silverlight.net/riaservices . In addition to lots of bug fixes, the release also includes several updates which address some of the top pain points...

For a while internally on the team we’ve discussed the need for an easy way to invoke a query operation without having those results accumulated in the DomainContext. The normal way queries are executed is of course to call DomainContext.Load for the query: EntityQuery<Product> query = productCtxt...

When errors occur server side in a DomainService during request processing, your customErrors configuration in web.config determines the level of error information that will be displayed to clients. By default the custom error mode is RemoteOnly . Deployed applications will likely use RemoteOnly or On...

If you’ve spent any time on the RIA Services forums or attempting to use our LinqToEntitiesDomainService base class yourself, you’ll know that it wasn’t very hard to run into issues :) For example, it was very easy to run into server side issues when processing more complicated graph updates. As I have...

I’m having a great time at PDC 2009 talking to customers about Silverlight and RIA Services. The second keynote just finished, Scott unveiled SL4 which means now our team can talk about our PDC Beta of RIA Services for VS 2008 / SL3 as well as our preview for VS 2010 / SL4! You can download the...

After much work, our team just released the July CTP of .NET RIA Services . We're releasing this CTP in step with the big Silverlight 3 release, as trumpeted on ScottGu's SL3 blog post here . As mentioned in Scott's post, " The new .NET RIA Services framework (which now has a go-live license) can be...