When working with RIA Services, a lot of your code is generated automatically, but you'll still need to write quite a lot of custom methods and you'd typically write them in your DomainService-class.  But what if you add an Entity to your datastore?  What if you want to add some CUD-operat... [More]

Since the previous part in this series, the final version of Silverlight 3 has been released, and a new version of RIA Services has been released: the July 2009 drop.  This release includes quite a few changes, so I had to change my demo source code around quite a bit to make it work with the n... [More]

In the first part of this series, I talked about some general concepts, and went into reading, updating, adding, deleting data using RIA Services.  If you haven't read it yet, you might want to read up on that, and maybe read up on the introductory post as well.   In this part, I'll talk... [More]

Welcome to the first in a series of RIA Services How-To's.  Unless mentioned otherwise, all these tidbits will use the latest drop of RIA Services (at the moment, this is the May 2009 drop).  When new drops arrive, changes may have to be made, inherent to beta software.    But,... [More]

First of all, welcome to a completely new blog-look! :-)    The last few weeks, I've been playing around with RIA Services (for Silverlight 3), which "simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. The RIA Services provid... [More]

Ever ran into the problem, when talking via WCF to a service, all your service calls fail because the servicehost-address in the generated WSDL is wrong?  In that case, this post is for you! :-) Think of a network setup like this: you've got a Silverlight-app, speaking with a bunch of ser... [More]

When talking about security for service calls, there are actually a few things to consider.  First of all, how do you make sure the data sent over the wire is encrypted?  That's your first level of security: always make sure the data that's being sent over the wire is encrypted.  Af... [More]