Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Starting a New Project with the Business Application Template
To kick off our series, I wanted to focus on our goal of helping you focus on your business, not plumbing code. The first place you will see this in the pre-build components in the Business Application Template. It describes a prescriptive application structure, looks great and is easily customizable.
After you have successfully installed Silverlight 4 for developers (which includes RIA Services) you will have a couple of new projects in the Silverlight section. We are going to focus on the Business Application Template.
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Notice this creates a single solution with two projects. BusinessApplication1 is the client part of the application and BusinessApplication2 is the server part. These are related projects that know about each other.
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And by default you get the framework for a great looking, professional application
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The starter application is fully localizable and customizable. For example, I want to change the name of the application from “Application Name” to My Foodie Explorer. This is easily done in the Assets\Resources directory be editing the ApplicationStrings.resx file.
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Check out a deeper walk through, it is a bit older, but it is still valid and Tim recently posted SNEAK PEEK: New Silverlight application themes such as:
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About Brad Abrams
Brad Abrams was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation where he is currently the Group Program Manager for the UI Framework and Services team which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that spans both clients and web based applications as well as the common services that are available to all applications. Specific technologies owned by this team include ASP.NET, Atlas, and Windows Forms.
Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 when he started his framework design career building the BCL (Base Class Library) that ship as a core part of the .NET Framework. Brad was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines and the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard. Brad has been deeply involved with the WinFX and Windows Vista efforts from their beginning
Brad co-authored Programming in the .NET Environment, and was editor on .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol1 and Vol2 and the Framework Design Guidelines
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