So following some of the examples out there I created a new Silverlight Navigation application with RIA services enabled. Built the entity model, added a domain service
and tested whether or not I could get some data to the client. This works fine.
But many of the examples show off how they use the Data Sources window
to simply drag data fields onto a window… in my case however there are no data sources in the data sources window.
In the demo’s and mix sessions this just appears out of the blue :p
Anyway how can I get my DomainService defined in the web project to show up
as one of the data sources in the data sources window?
This was a known bug in the previous versions with the following workaround:
http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/archive/2010/04/13/workaround-to-data-source-window-not-populating-ria-services-domain-context-objects.aspx
Basically this happened when you installed VS2010 on any drive other than c:\
The issue has been resolved in Ria Services 1.0 🙂