I could, and will soon, write a long ass post about how I cobbled together a messed-up architecture for building Silverlight applications on top of an enterprise class SOA architecture without RIA but with RIA… Here is a branch of AutoMapper, compiled against Silverlight and now with support for entities generated from WCF service references. http://github.com/detroitpro/AutoMapper.Silverlight I really hope I published it to GitHub correctly; yell at me if not.

In a recent post Jamie Kosoy, who I believe is a flash developer, posted his thoughts on his first Silverlight project. I’m also green to Silverlight and just finished my first project. I’ll save the post about my thoughts for another day; but I wanted to add my two cents regarding Jamie’s observations.   Timeline animation is different. Flash uses a key frame based animation framework, Silverlights animation is based on time. Seems simple, and as someone coming from jQuery heavy development it was, but I can see how it would take a second too understand. Silverlight is the better videoplayer...

When using Prism for composition in Silverlight how do I attach actions between modules? Am I forced to use the event system or is there a way to set the TargetName for my Actions to the name of a UserControl in a different module? For Example: <Image Height="40" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Width="40" Source="/SilverlightDemo.MainToolbar;Component/Images/i_chart.png" Stretch="Fill" Canvas.Left="222" Canvas.Top="55">               ...

After a day or so of working with Silverlight it became quite apparent that you can’t, no you Shouldn’t build Silverlight LOB (Line of Business) applications without Prism. Prism offers a way to break down your application into modules. And it uses Regions as a way to put it all back together again. Its very similar to the ASP.NET MasterPage/Content area approach. Unfortunately for me; the control toolkit I’m using (I work for GISi now; its a mapping company…more on that in a future post) is from ESRI but none of the ESRI samples use Prism. When I got down to the nitty gritty I ended...