Silverlight 5 WCF RIA Services: Part 1

In this article we are going to explore the WCF Ria Services with Silverlight 5. Lets start with the basics for the first timers .

Create a new SL project as shown below :



Note the DLLs that are added when you enable WCF RIA Service support .




In the web project Add New Item . Add a Data Model as shown below :











Then Build the Solution . It is necessary you give it a build otherwise when we create a Domain Service , the Data Model would not be recognised by the Domain Service .

Creating a Domain Service :

In the Web project , add a Domain Service .



Add new Domain Service class Dialog appears .



Select the Article Entity .



A couple of classes are generated as shown below :



Give it a Build again .

Go to the Data Menu and click Show Data Sources .




Data Sources Panel should now show the DataDomainContext . Under that Article .




Select the Article and a drop down appears . say Customize as shown below :




Go ahead and attach the DataGrid Control to the Data Source . You could select themes as well.



Notice the change in the icon .




Now go to the Design Screen . Simply drag and drop the entity into the MainPage layout area . A datagrid should be added automatically now .

Make sure AutoGenerateColumns="True" .



Build and Run it.




In the next post we will check out some advanced concepts in WCF Ria Services . Till then Happy Coding .