Almost 4 years ago, I moved my family from Cincinnati, Ohio to Redmond, Washington so that I could join Microsoft.  Since we have two young children, and a small family, the move has been really hard on the grandparents.  But as our first Christmas out here approached, I came up... [Read More]

On December 9, 2011, Silverlight 5 was released.  As always, RIA Services is included in the Tools for Silverlight, and this new release included our V1.0 SP2 final build.  We refer to this as our RTW build, meaning Released-To-Web.  In addition to the Tools installer including WCF RIA Services V1.0... [Read More]

At //build, Dinesh Kulkarni from our team gave a presentation alongside Asad Khan from the OData team.  They showed RIA/JS consuming both a RIA Services DomainService as well as an OData feed from Azure.  Dinesh also showed RIA/JS working in the browser, in a Win8 Metro Style app, and on... [Read More]

I’ve gotten quite a few requests for the source code behind the RIA Services Validation blog post series.  I am pleased to announce that the code is now published on GitHub. http://github.com/jeffhandley/RIAServicesValidation Within that repository, you’ll find: RudeValidation.Web/Models – Server-side model classes RudeValidation.Web/Validators – Custom validators including CompareValidator, ConditionallyRequired, and... [Read More]

For those of you familiar with the ViewModel (or MVVM) pattern, you are likely also familiar with a typical pain point regarding validation: you often need to duplicate your entity validation metadata onto your ViewModel classes.  This can lead to burdensome dual maintenance of your validation rules, and it can... [Read More]