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If you are one of the old timers and remember the glory days of VB 6.0 and FoxPro, you probably really liked how easy it was to quickly create Line of Business (LOB) applications. 

 

Well, with the Silverlight (SL) 4.0 Business Application template in Visual Studio 2010, you again have that quick LOB app generation capability.  Select this template and it creates several SL views with site navigation, WCF Rich Internet Application (RIA) services hook up and user authentication support.  Simply add a database along with an Entity model, drop some controls on the existing pages and write a little bit of code for a fully functioning LOB application against a back end data store!  It truly is as simple as the old days, plus you got all the new web technology toys.

 

This simple to create LOB application can then be extended WCF/REST services, jQuery, MVVM and all the cool new SL controls, Out of Browser capability like Webcam and Printing extensions.

 

I'm heading out this week to do a two Metro training in Mountain View California on the subject and then another one in Boston next month.  Homnick Systems is also holding two day Hands On Seminars on the subject starting in April.  Check it out at http://homnick.com.