Thanks everyone who attended my talk at the Silverlight User Group last night. I really enjoyed myself and was glad to see a hearty discussion around RIA services – which is surely the point of these sorts of events; to get everyone thinking and get the dialog going.
You can download my presentations from here: http://bit.ly/SlugSep09IB
Ria Services
If you want to find out more about Ria Services then Brad Adams is the person to go to – if you haven’t seen his blog series that followed on from his Mix09 series then check that out now; it consists of >20 posts covering everything from using a ViewModel, azure, authentication, multiple clients and data sources, SEO, Unit testing and much more. And it’s ongoing with promises of new posts on modular development (will be interesting to see how that relates to Prism). He has a summary of the current posts here: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/08/02/business-apps-example-for-silverlight-3-rtm-and-net-ria-services-july-update-summary.aspx.
I have placed the app on http://silverlightpulse.codeplex.com/ - if you haven’t used codeplex before it is Microsoft’s Open source repository – you can use a range of clients such as svn, team system etc to work with the source. I have published under the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) which is the most permissive Open Souce MS license as I understand it
Anyone who is interested in helping out please get in touch (Ian@bbits.co.uk) – it would be really great to take this app and make it a great showcase for members of the Silverlight User Group in the UK. There are lots of things we could explore both functionally (eg wordle maps, integrating other network api’s such as friendfeed, using the silverlight bing map), and technically (using Prism for modularity seems like a great fit, having more server processing to aggregate data for all perhaps (instead of doing the work on the client), adopting MVVM, are a few that come to mind. I actually think this could develop into something really interesting and I am sure there will be many ideas from the community that could be used. Get your thinking caps on and get in touch – please :-)
Cheers
Ian
posted @ Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:41 AM