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]

Earlier this month, I explored using WebMatrix, Git, and AppHarbor to quickly create and publish a web site in the cloud.  While at work this afternoon I got a phone call from a relative with a usability issue on the site.  To fix the issue, I simply needed to wrap... [Read More]

I needed to crank out a single-page web site for my son, to help him promote his popcorn sales for cub scouts.  I decided it was a perfect opportunity to try some new things, so I jumped into WebMatrix to create the site, added it to a Git repository, and... [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]