When building RIAs there is sometimes both the need for complex rich interfaces and simpler standard html interfaces. This is more common when introducing the rich experience into an existing web application where it makes sense to maintain some of the existing functionality and introduce the power of Silverlight in targeted functions. In such a circumstance when we have business functionality in Silverlight and in ASP.NET/HTML pages - wouldn't it be great if we had the ability to interop between...

Following my FUNdaments presentation tonight to the East Bay .NET user group on the options available to ASP.NET developers for using AJAX type methods for grabbing information/content from a server from the client side browser, the code can be found here and the presentation can be found here. Once again Beth Massi rocked on the main presentation about VB10, C# 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. Lots of goodies to look forward to. That said it cracks me up that MSFT is adding more capabilities to facilitate...