In this section Brad Abrams wanted to take up a challenge that Ben Hayat sent him to show that Silverlight and RIA Services are really capable of building real business applications.
Apparently real business applications include more than one table, and even more than simple master details. But they also include hierarchal data. For example you have an Orders table that has an associated set of line items in a separate LineItems table, but the Orders keeps track of total sales, net, tax and number of lines, as each line gets added or deleted.
Here are the previous parts of Brad's series:
- Part 1: Navigation Basics
- Part 2: Rich Data Query
- Part 3: Authentication
- Part 4: SEO, Export to Excel and Out of Browser
- Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms
- Part 6: Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)
- Part 7: ADO.NET Data Services Based Data Store
- Part 8: WCF Based Data Source
- Part 9: POCO and Authentication Provider
- Part 10: LinqToSql
- Part 11: The Client-Only World
- Part 12: DataSet
- Part 13: The New Class Library Project
- Part 14: Visual Basic (VB) and WPF Support
- Part 15: ASP.NET MVC
- Part 16: Exposing a WCF Service
- Part 17: Evolving an Application
- Part 18: Custom Linq Provider
- Part 19: ASP.NET Dynamic Data
- Part 20: NHibernate