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copied!<p>Well, I have not yet heard of people referring to WCF RIA Services as black magic.</p> <p>I believe there is a small number of people using it (compared to the number of people writing stuff in Silverlight), because it is younger. People may have been developing their Silverlight applications for some time now (version 3.0 came out in July 2009) using classic WCF Services. </p> <p>WCR RIA Services is still new (version 1.0 came out in May 2010, the final SP1 in December 2010) and we all know the rule, "Never change a running system", so if someone already has a working WCF webservice, why change it? In my case, we experimented with Silverlight and WCF some time ago and decided to wait. When RIA Services came out we thought that was great and started working on a Silverlight version of our main application. It is much easier using RIA Services in a new project than chaning your webservice access in an existing one.</p> <p>In addition to that it should be noted that Silverlight is not limited to business applications with database access using a webservice. Therefore there may be quite a few Silverlight developers who do not need any kind of webservice.</p> <p>Another reason might be the fact that for web applications requiring a database other technologies like ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, even PHP or JSP (and possibly others I may not even have heard of) have existed for quite a while. And although business applications ought to look nice, too, it usually is not the top requirement to have all kinds of fancy graphics and animations, etc.</p> <p>Finally, why are so few questions regarding RIA Services asked on SO? Well, they do have their <a href="http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/53.aspx" rel="nofollow">own forum</a> which seems to be quite active. (I use it as a resource when looking for answers but don't post there.)</p>

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