One of the responsibilities I have come to own is our group’s NuGet package publishing.  My group owns all of the ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Web Pages, Razor, and SignalR packages, among others; and there are quite a few of them.  When it’s time to publish a set of packages,... [Read More]

It’s been a long time coming, but we have now published updated and new NuGet packages for RIA Services, including an update to RIAServices.EntityFramework that adds support for EntityFramework 5.0.0 (including all versions >= 4.1). Each of the following NuGet packages was uploaded to nuget.org today with the version number... [Read More]

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]