Silverlight is one of Microsoft's fastest advancing and most exciting development platforms. Since version 2, Silverlight has been a great platform for building rich internet applications (RIAs) using .NET languages. Now, with Silverlight 3 and ADO.NET Data services, the picture is even more complete and Silverlight is an even better choice for building business applications. This presentation will cover how to use Expression Blend and Visual Studio to create business applications using Silverlight 3 and ADO.NET Data Services.

1. Silverlight 3 & RIA Services ADO.NET Data Services Brad Tutterow

3. History of Silverlight Silverlight crossing the Delaware

4. Version 1 – Sep 2007

5. Version 2 – Oct 2008

6. Version 3 – Aug 2009

7. Silverlight & Data : Less is More LINQ to Entities System.Data REST ADO.NET Isolated Storage NHibernate LINQ to SQL Web Services DataSets

8. Silverlight & Data : No Waiting Data Code Asynchronous Request Client Server

9. ADO.NET Data Services Overview Some data Some context ADO.NET Data Services Client Code ASYNC

10. RIA Services Overview Some data Some context ADO.NET Data Services Client Code ASYNC Shared domain and validation Shared domain and validation code generation

11. Comparison & Contrast

12. More about ADO.NET Data Services Server Client Some data Some context ADO.NET Data Services Client Code Entity Frame- work SQL Server Client Context ASYNC Generated No Code* *Well, not much anyway

13. Using an ADO.NET Entity Service http://www.petesdiner.com/data.svc/specials Returns XML or JSON http://.../data.svc/specials(name=‘meatloaf’) http://.../data.svc/employees?$orderby=LastName http://.../data.svc/employees[Pete]/shift

14. HTTP VERBS

15. DEMO

16. All wired up LINQ Client code HTTP Client context LINQ ADO.NET Data Services SQL LINQ to Entities Database