This document discusses how to use Silverlight and RIA Services to quickly develop CRUD (create, read, update, delete) applications. It provides resources for getting started with Silverlight and SQL Server Express, and notes that a demo of a simple HR maintenance system using drag-and-drop in Silverlight will be posted online, along with the completed code. Developers are encouraged to also try a programmatic or MVVM approach to building similar solutions.

1. Get Rid of CRUD Faster!Using Silverlight and RIA Services to quickly develop CRUD applications Kyle Shaffar – Software Architect, MedAssets

2. About Me Kyle Shaffar – Software Architect, MedAssets Located in Cape Girardeau, MO 10 Years experience developing with Microsoft technology stack

3. 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.

4. 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/

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

6. DEMO - Adventure Works HR Drag and Drop implementation of simple HR Maintenance System.

7. 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.

8. QUESTIONS ?