Working with collections in WCF RIA Services

A lot of business applications today are built with WCF RIA Services (which should come as no surprise, as it’s a really powerful, extensible framework). However, the collection type support could have been better. Often, you’d simply resort to fetching your entities and adding them to an ObservableCollection in the completed event of your load operation. This still works, but in the first Service Pack for WCF RIA Services quite a few enhancements to existing collection types have been made, and new ones have been added. These allow you to make it easier to work with WCF RIA Services in an MVVM context: we now have collections which automatically track your DomainContext, collections which allow you to add filters, sorting & even grouping, and there’s a server-side pageable DomainCollectionView. In this eBook, we’ll have a look at these enhancements & new types, and the scenarios in which they can prove useful.


Table of Contents:
1. Working with collections in WCF RIA Services – EntitySet and EntityList
2. Working with collections in WCF RIA Services – ICollectionView and DomainCollectionView