Delivering business processing logic through RIA (Rich Internet Application) format is very attractive to architects, developers and operators of IT shops. RIA combines the richness of the desktop application with the ease of deployment, ubiquity and...

I recently spoke to a customer who wanted to know if Silverlight extracts the dlls (from the XAP) and stores them in the temp directories before building the type system in memory. The reason for the question was that they have a monitoring system that...

In this post we will look at one of the architectural aspects of the enterprise class applications - application partitioning. Application partitioning is done for variety of reasons including the following: To optimize download times To chunk the application...

Brad has a great post on this subject at http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/05/03/accessing-the-asp-net-authentication-profile-and-role-service-in-silverlight.aspx . -Hanu