Hi ,

In the "Control your WCF RIA Services code through attributes" section, can you add a note that the IsChanged flag should be read after calling the base "UpdateEntity()" method. Obvious when you know it, but I just spent a few hours debugging why all my fields where marked as IsChanged=true.

Thanks,

Scott

We'll look into making it more clear. Wasting time because of lacking docs is of course unacceptable. Thanks for the heads up

Question: you're using RIA services, even though the project is dead (no devs at MS working on it), is this because of an old project or is this a new project? I ask this because we plan to discontinue RIA services support in v5.

Its unfortunate its dead, and yes ours is an oldish project. Silverlight itself is of course dying although does have support for some years to come (to 2021) although no new features. I've found RIA pretty reliable and speeds up Silverlight dev especially when used with LLBLGen. We will have to move to a different technology, but I'm hoping the next 2 years will see something good come out of Microsoft to address the LOB gap I think there is in doing web deliverable apps on the .net stack.

If you are going to discontinue support, that's a shame although there probably aren't a lot of projects like ours. I guess I will be able to get your v4 RIA source and attempt to compile it for v5?

yowl wrote:

Its unfortunate its dead, and yes ours is an oldish project. Silverlight itself is of course dying although does have support for some years to come (to 2021) although no new features. I've found RIA pretty reliable and speeds up Silverlight dev especially when used with LLBLGen. We will have to move to a different technology, but I'm hoping the next 2 years will see something good come out of Microsoft to address the LOB gap I think there is in doing web deliverable apps on the .net stack.

I wouldn't hold my breath There's IMHO absolutely no vision what they think should be done, they're simply running after what's popular at the moment.

If you are going to discontinue support, that's a shame although there probably aren't a lot of projects like ours. I guess I will be able to get your v4 RIA source and attempt to compile it for v5?

Removing things like this is only possible in major releases so we removed it for v5. Yes, sourcecode of v4 is still available and you can try to compile it against the v5 runtime when time comes. I don't expect many issues with doing that.

Thanks for the feedback