RIA Services in .NET – A Closer Look

The RIA Services provides a mechanism of exposing data and business logic for consumption by the Rich Internet Applications like Silverlight.These are basically WCF services with some additional plumbing which makes it very easy to develop and consume service from Silverlight applications.Since these are basically WCF services they can be  consumed from other types of applications like ASP.NET/WinForms/WPF as well.