Following are some best practices that I came across during my search for perfection in Silverlight 4.0 technology.
1. Head first design pattern: If you look at the evolution that Silverlight been thorough since its inception, you will realize that now it has evolved in a complete development platform. Due to this fact, I think anyone who wants to create a solution in Silverlight 4.0 has to think about the architecture first. Also, the technologies that complement Silverlight 4.0 can fully be appreciated if we have good architecture. Specially if we implement the separation of concerns design pattern.
2. Harness the power of WCF: One of the great things about Microsoft is the fact that they come up with a great technology that makes you excited. Although most of the times it takes Microsoft three releases to produce such a technology but still I think it is a great feat. Similar is the story of WCF. I have been working on services development since 2002 and had a close tab on all web services technologies. I think in regards of WCF, Microsoft has got it right. One of the amazing things in WCF is its support for Silverlight. Especially the advent of WCF RIA services. If you are implementing any line of business application for web, you should definitely look into this as development platform.
I welcome all comments.
