The SOA.UI library has, since its introduction, defined its standard UI-serving services not only in terms of interfaces and DataContract s, but as a set of base classes to be inherited. This approach provides the automatic inheritance of the relevant interface and DataContract, but also allows for more...

What is .NET RIA Services? To quote Microsoft: Microsoft .NET RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data...

Having recently released our initial offering of Silverlight controls, we are starting to get a feel for the sorts of issues Silverlight developers commonly encounter in designing and developing their applications. One question which seems to pop up frequently is how security and authentication should...