A marketing mistake: WCF Data Services & WCF RIA Services - Ayende @ Rahien

many more confused with the WCF Dataservices and WCF RIA ...

A marketing mistake: WCF Data Services & WCF RIA Services - Ayende @ Rahien: "WCF Data Services is "Astoria" used to support the OData "protocol" which is basically Atom Pub + query conventions + EDMX metadata endpoint + EDM payload.

WCF RIA Services is using "Astoria" to remote an IDataService interface to a Silverlight client. It's RPC CRUD over Http complete with client side proxy objects."

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