There is a known issue with WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2 RC’s Business Application project template.  The issue only surfaces in Silverlight 5, and there’s an easy way to fix it.  We determined the root cause of this issue after it was too late to fix it in time for... [Read More]

On September 1, 2011, Silverlight 5 RC was released.  As always, RIA Services is included in the Tools for Silverlight, and that release included our V1.0 SP2 RC build.  And also as always, we published a standalone installer for RIA Services.  You can find it on the download center.  The... [Read More]

Hello, my name is Jeff, and I am addicted to NuGet.   I firmly believe NuGet is one of the best things to come out of Microsoft in a long time, or maybe ever.  NuGet has already transformed the way the RIA Services team releases software.  Now it’s starting to... [Read More]

WCF RIA Services V1.0 (and V1.0 SP1) included a feature called “Live IntelliSense.”  Live IntelliSense is a feature that you probably didn’t even know about, but you might also take it for granted.  Some people do know about the feature though as it’s caused a few problems, and those affected... [Read More]

The RIA Services team published the August 2011 edition of the Toolkit tonight.  We also refreshed all of our NuGet packages: RIAServices.Endpoints - Includes the SOAP and JSON endpoints RIAServices.jQuery - Includes the preview for our JavaScript/jQuery client RIAServices.ViewModel - Silverlight ViewModel (MVVM) features RIAServices.T4 - T4 Code Generation RIAServices.WindowsAzure... [Read More]