Today at PDC09 , Scott Guthrie Announced the beta of WCF RIA Services . As you may know RIA Services is a set of end-to-end experiences that makes it as easy to build Silverlight based n-tier applications as it is to build traditional 2 tier apps. I am very excited about this release as it represents a lot of great feedback we have heard from many of you. A few goodies in this release based on your feedback You told us you wanted to get up and running with the UI quicker, so we enabled the ?DataSources? window that allows you to drag and drop ?tables? exposed by your Domain Service onto the form and get meaningful UI to start with. No more guessing about the Xaml syntax for databinding, or incantation...(read more) ...
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