In early pre-release versions of RIA Services, the DomainDataSource control did not support filter descriptors for Enum properties.  We were able to get this fixed for our V1.0 RC release though, and I mentioned that back in March.  I said in that post that I’d follow up with details about... [Read More]

With our WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta release, we have a known installation issue that we wanted to call out.  In actuality, the issue is not with our SP1 installer, but with our V1.0 RTM installer, but it doesn't surface until you've installed SP1. To get right to the... [Read More]

I was one of the developers that ported the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations assembly to Silverlight.  Every once in awhile, someone asks me if the Silverlight version of the assembly is a subset of what is in .NET.  The answer is Yes, but there are some caveats, and I’m honestly tired of regurgitating... [Read More]

Last week, I tweeted about a bug the RIA Services QA team found.  It’s rather obscure and we decided not to fix it.  I thought it was worth mentioning for at least the humor of it. Here’s what you must be using in order to see this issue: Windows XP... [Read More]

UPDATE: The RIA Services team released a December 2010 Toolkit, and that release fixes the build issues encountered below.  But this post still has value as it shows some ways to modify the code generated by our T4 Code Generator.  Be sure to check out Varun Puranik’s Blog for more... [Read More]