New York ALT.NET Group

Re: [nyaltnet] WCF RIA Services - Good or Evil?

From:	Ben Dewey
Sent on:	Monday, March 8, 2010 10:43 PM

Erik,

I think I talked about this at #codecampnyc with some people, but to me this argument boils down to your comfort (or compulsion) level with controlling the bare metal. In my experience, RIA Services works great with CRUD applications. But, when you need to send complex types across the wire I prefer to go with WCF in one of three ways (in order of how "bare metal" I consider them).

1. All Generated on SL Side - Create WCF Service on the Website and consume using Add Service Reference

2. Custom DTOs, Generated WCF on SL- Create DTOs in an SL Assembly and link the files with a v3.5 Assembly using project linker [1]. (At least until .NET 4 comes out with shared assemblies). Then use 'Add Service Reference' but choose Reuse objects from Reference Assemblies.

3. Custom DTOs, Manual WCF on both - Create DTOs and 2 versions of the WCF Contract (1 normal and 1 async) and share using project linker. Write the Service by hand on the Website and write the consumption logic by hand in SL.

-Ben Dewey

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd458870.aspx

From: Erik Wynne Stepp

Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 9:57 PM

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Subject: [nyaltnet] WCF RIA Services - Good or Evil?

As many of you know, I am the organizer for the WPF/Silverlight Meetup. One of the more interesting developments for Silverlight recently is WCF RIA Services.

I was curious what the ALT.NET community thinks about WCF RIA Services. Is this a good thing that we should encourage? Is it evil, leading developers down the path to hell? I have my own opinions, but I’d like to hear especially from those who have used it since my knowledge is still very superficial.

Despite my provocative title, I don’t personally believe in technology religion so please support your arguments with reasons that you feel the way that you do.

Erik Wynne Stepp | http://azurestuff.com

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