Hosting WCR RIA Services in Windows Server AppFabric.

Question

Hi,

First of all, I want to tell that English isn't my native language and this is my first post on this forum so I am sorry for any mistakes. I am developing small application that rely on Silverlight 4, Prism 4, MS Enterprise Library 5, WCF RIA Services (I have a database from which I want to retrieve data and pass to Silverlight client) and other Microsoft technologies such as Entity framework as ORM. I knew "pure" WCF Services very well and I hosted them on production computer easily but how can I host each of WCF RIA Services in Windows Server AppFabric as standalone services like ordinary WCF Services. I want to use my wcf ria services in a few silverlight projects not one.

Answer 1

This link has quite a few good tutorials to work through to understand AppFabric and WCF: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/gg675185. There is one that includes calling these services from ASP.NET or Silverlight.

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Answer 2

Thank you for the reply but I have already read/watch this tutorials. this tutorials provides overview about "pure" WCF Services (not RIA). I cannot find good tutorial about hosting wcf ria services as a standaolne services (like pure wcf services) on appfabric. I want to first create standalone ria service which facade (service contract) will be repository (CRUD) in which I inject object context generated from entity framework (database first approach). my primary question is that:
IS THERE ANY OTHERS TEMPLATES (METHODS) TO CREATE WCF RIA SERVICE (OTHER THAN SILVERLIGHT BUSSINESS APPLCIATION) THAT WILL HELP ME TO CREATE WCF RIA WITHOUT COUPLING WITH MY SILVERLIGHT APP? I WANT TO PROVIDE IN MY SERVICE LOGIC THAT I WANT TO REFERENCE IN OTHER SILVERLIGHT/ASP.NET SOLUION. I DONT WANT TO COUPLE RIA AND SILVELIGHT IN ONE SOLUTION.

Thanks if anybody can help me giving me advice or link to materials that solve my problem.

Answer 3

What about WCF RIA Service Class Library in VS2010? I read that I cannot host solution created from that template in windows server appfabric. Maybe I am wrong.