RIA Services With Silverlight 3 - Part 1
With the invention of Silverlight 3 Microsoft introduces the RIA Services which have given a new dimension to the traditional n-tier application pattern. With this pattern you can write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. You can also provide end to end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier. There’s a great walkthrough video on RIA Services by Tim Heuer. This article is based on Tim’s walkthrough with just a little bit of improvisation. More
