Aug 9th Meeting - WCF RIA Services & Silverlight

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Short summer break... but we will have Brian Noyes speaking at our
group in August -
Main web site:
http://www.twincitiesdevelopersgroup.com/?p=77

EventBrite sign up at:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1926868315

WCF RIA Services can add a lot of productivity for building data-
intensive Silverlight business applications. It makes querying and
updating simple, provides rich validation support, simple declarative
security for the services and client, and rich error handling. In this
session, you will get a quick intro into how to build Silverlight
clients and services with RIA Services and see how quickly you can
leverage these features so that you can just focus on the logic and
appearance of your application instead of the plumbing. You’ll see how
to define domain services, query and update data, and apply
declarative and imperative validation rules in the data pipeline. WCF
RIA Services is no silver bullet, so you’ll also learn about the
limitations of the technology and where its sweet spot is for
balancing productivity, performance, and scale.

Our speaker is Brian Noyes –
Brian Noyes is Chief Architect of IDesign, a Microsoft Regional
Director,
and a Silverlight MVP. He is a frequent top rated speaker at
conferences
worldwide including Microsoft TechEd, DevConnections, DevTeach, and
others. He is the author of Developers Guide to Microsoft Prism 4,
Developing Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation, Smart Client
Deployment with ClickOnce, and Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0.
Brian
got started programming as a hobby while flying F-14 Tomcats in the
U.S.
Navy, later turning his passion for code into his current career. You
can
contact Brian through his blog at http://briannoyes.net or on twitter
@briannoyes.