wcf ria services

Tutorial for Configuring Silverlight 4, Entity Framework and WCF RIA Services in Separate Component Assemblies (DLL’s)

Submitted by Ben Hodson on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 13:41

Why does Microsoft assume that we want to combine our business, data access, service, and web layers together in a single web project? Without sounding too much like a rant here, take a look at almost ALL of Brad Abrams (former Microsoft Architect for WCF RIA Services and Entity Framework) posted examples of how to use the Entity Framework with RIA Services. They all have the Entities, RIA Services, and pretty much all of the other data logic included in the Web Application project.