Is RIA Services right for our Silverlight app at this point?

I am using SL 3, . NET RIA and EF. Still trying to figure out how to load, and update data effectively and best in performance.

Little information that I have so far how to improve the performance issue that I face. Still need more time to get these frameworks to be mature. Hopefully, there are more resources and insight in the near future.

I would look into some of the ORM's / IoC Frameworks which help create a separation of interests. A couple examples are Castle Windsor IoC, they have a sample Silverlight 4 application that utilizes the Castle Windsor Framework. Another common ORM for Silverlight is BL Toolkit.

These have been around for a while in the Java arena but are newer in the . NET area. They basically help to move the complexities of the relational data model out of the UI code and delegate it to the Framework.

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