WCF Data Services
Although we won't go into it deeply here, it's worth mentioning the availability of WCF Data Services as an alternative to RIA Services. WCF Data Services (Data Services, for short) is another data-centric communication technology built on the WCF stack that exposes data to clients as JSON- or ATOM-serialized RESTful resources using the OData protocol. The OData protocol specifies how a client can query, navigate, and update data exposed by a service. Using this protocol, the client can communicate with the service in a RESTful manner by retrieving data using a standard HTTP GET call, using specially constructed URIs, and sending updates to the server using a standard HTTP POST call.
Data Services shares a number of similarities ...
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