What is the difference between the two? Are they supposed to perform one and the same function – data binding? Or are they “apples and oranges” in comparison?
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What is the difference between the two? Are they supposed to perform one and the same function – data binding? Or are they “apples and oranges” in comparison?
These are really different things. LINQ to XML is a way of trying to treat XML data as though it were relational, and querying on that data.
RIA services are a special type of WCF service that exposes data to tightly-coupled clients. They can have SOAP/binary, SOAP/XML, or JSON endpoints. You can think of RIA services as a “LINQ to web service”, and though it will work with AJAX, it was really intended for a Silverlight client.