Data Driven RIA ASP.Net and Silverlight

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Silverlight original name was shazamaml.
5 key aspects of a Rich Internet Application (ria): Profession feel, rich data query, validating input, authentication, different views.
Use DomianDataSource in xaml to work as aspx data source.
New activity control…binds to datsource and controls paging, along with DataPager. Use groupdescritors property to group data in domaindatasource, and Filerdescritpors for filtering.
Autocomplete box like ajax auto complete.
Datagrid is better for master data, data form is better for detail data.
Use metadata class to help validate on client and server. Can use ria.applicationservices to do authentication.
Sitemap page makes silver light site more searchable and will help with people who don’t have silver light (will need pluginnotinstalled template)