Chapter 13. WCF RIA Services and Silverlight for Mobile

The Silverlight platform is meant to provide a technology platform to develop and deploy platform- and device-agnostic and enterprise-level line-of-business rich Internet applications. So far you have learned basic and advanced features and capabilities to develop Silverlight RIAs. This chapter provides you with the following:

  • A high-level overview of the newly introduced capabilities in Silverlight 4, including WCF RIA Services (previously known as .NET RIA Services) to truly develop n-tier enterprise-level business applications

  • Extended support of Silverlight on the Windows Mobile 7 platform to develop Silverlight-based applications for Windows mobile devices

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