Dreaming of RIA Services - Literally

Thursday, July 16 2009 - Data Access

I was having a hard time sleeping last night so I got up and did some work. I started reading up on RIA Services on Brad Abrams' blog and Nikhil Kothari's. I needed a refresher from the last time I dug into them just before TechEd. I'm really excited about RIA Services because they bridge a very frustrating gap when working with ADO.NET Data Services (aka Astoria).

 I finally went back to sleep and dreamt that Brad and some other's from Microsoft were at my user group (www.vtdotnet.org) doing a presentation on RIA Services. (Any time you want to come to beautiful Vermont, guys.....)

If you haven't looked at the July update of RIA Services that has a ton more integration with Astoria and the newly released Silverlight 3, check the above link to Brad's blog for a series of posts as well as links to lots of resources.

I'll definitely be writing about RIA Services more as I get my head wrapped further around them.

#1 Brad Abrams on 7.16.2009 at 11:30 AM

Oh, what a great dream! I have always wanted to go to Vermont... this might be just the junket.. I mean excuse I need.. ;-)

#2 Nikhil Kothari on 7.16.2009 at 1:34 PM

Julie, its great to hear you're excited with RIA Services and the value it brings to the bigger picture including ADO.NET Data Services.

#3 Maxim on 7.18.2009 at 2:08 AM

Yeah, the idea's nice. I wish it was at least somewhat working.. E.g. I gave up trying to tweak around it just after exception of "Ambiguous reference found" on ValidateProperty method call simply because I have "Id" property in my objects and it conflicts with System.Windows.Ria.Data.AtomEntity's Id property. Oh, well...

Waiting for something more stable.