Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: In 4000 dex

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Index

 

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. 

Starting a New Project with the Business Application Template
 

Exposing Data from Entity Framework
 

Consuming Data in the Client

Updating Data

Validating Data

Authentication and Personalization

Silverlight and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Exposing OData Services

Exposing WCF (WSDL) Services

Exposing JSON Endpoint

Working with Reference Data - In Progress

Deploying to a 3rd Party Hoster
(I could not do any better than Saurabh's post!)

Workflow Integration - In Progress

Management with AppFabric - In Progress

Debugging Tips and Tricks - In Progress

Globalized and Localized