Get Rid of CRUD Faster!Using Silverlight and RIA Services to quickly develop CRUD applications

Kyle Shaffar – Software Architect, MedAssets

About Me

• Kyle Shaffar – Software Architect, MedAssets• Located in Cape Girardeau, MO• 10 Years experience developing with Microsoft

technology stack

Who likes CRUD?

• Create,Read,Update,Delete• Very repetitive code that can be boring to

write.• Silverlight 4 and RIA Services gives you a

toolset to quickly develop your CRUD applications.

Resources

• Silverlight Get Started: http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Express: http://www.microsoft.com/express/database/

• AdventureWorks Sample Databases: http://msftdbprodsamples.codeplex.com/

• Presentation and completed code will be posted on my blog: http://geekswithblogs.net/ArchitectureDreams/Default.aspx

DEMO - Adventure Works HR

• Drag and Drop implementation of simple HR Maintenance System.

What’s Next?

• Obviously Drag and Drop is not for everyone so I encourage you to try the same solution using a programmatic approach via the code behind.

• For a really great implementation consider making use of the MVVM pattern.

QUESTIONS

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