More updates on my Mix09 talk ?building business applications with Silverlight 3 ?. You can watch the original video of the full session The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008 ) Silverlight 3 RTM .NET RIA Services July '09 Preview Also, download the full demo files ? In the original demo I showed getting your data from a database directly from the web tier. Many enterprise customers have found that it their systems are more maintainable and secure if they isolate the database access behind a set of web services possibly in a DMZ . This means that no apps talk directly to the database. Yet there is often a need to add application specific validation and application logic as well as data...(read more)
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