WCF RIA Services - Part I, changes in features known from previous releases & design tools

I wrote a very long post about .NET Ria Services with 20 samples four months ago. In this series of posts I’ll describe WCF RIA Services presented at PDC. In this post, I’ll present 9 updated samples and VS 2010 design tools.

Business Application Demo

Silverlight Business Applications: Design tools 

Data Sources Window: Query selection

Data Sources Window: Control selection

Dragging the Product node to the designer (query with parameters)

Dragging the Product node onto the DataPager

Data Sources Window: Details mode selection

Dragging the Product node to the designer (Details mode)

Data Sources Window: Custom control selection

Dragging the User node to the designer (Details mode, custom control)

 

 Server validation &  resolving concurrency conflicts

 

Windows Authentication

 

A Https Enabled DomainService

 

DomainContext: cross-domain scenario

 

Loading Data from Related Entities

Silverlight Business Applications: Design tools 

Dragging the Products node (the child node of the Category node) to the designer

Multiple DomainContexts

WCF RIA Services Class Libraries

ASP.NET Dynamic Data integration

Other useful samples I have found

• POCO
• Authentication
  • Custom authentication service
  • Offline Authentication
  • AuthenticationService in RIAServicesClassLibrary
• Repository pattern
• Custom Metadata Provider
• Custom Domain Service Type
• Hosting in Azure

Useful links

• http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL07
• http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL21
• http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL19
• http://silverlight.net/learn/videos/all/ria-services-support-visual-studio-2010/
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee707344(VS.91).aspx
• http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/RiaServices
• http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/
• http://jeffhandley.com/
• http://www.nikhilk.net/
• http://timheuer.com/
• http://weblogs.asp.net/fredriknormen/
• http://www.riaservicesblog.net/Blog/
• http://blogs.msdn.com/digital_ruminations/
• http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/