Dinesh Kulkarni, from the RIA Services team, has published a roadmap for RIA Services. No guarantees here, but they hope to release a beta at PDC in November. The next CTP will be in July.
It's a bit disappointing to me. I had heard a rumor that RIA would release with Silverlight 3 in July. Perhaps it referred to the CTP. According to the roadmap, they are making changes to the underlying protocol (moving to ADO.NET Data Services), so you know that will take a lot of time.
Highlights from his post:
July 2009 CTP
This is a preview, not the V1 release. We plan to drop go-live restriction from EULA – still use it at your own risk.
Try to get significant known breaking changes (the ones we don’t know about will come later)
Feature enhancements (e.g. code-gen hookpoints to add your custom code, improved library support, better shared code support, query for singletons, cleaner user model and better extensibility support for Application Services etc.)
Usual fare of bug fixes, API improvements etc
Enable a first set of better together experiences with ADO.NET Data Services (add a DomainService to Data Service for writing app logic / expose DomainService as DataService)
PDC 2009 Beta
Additional core feature work (list TBD, under consideration – hierarchy support, presentation model)
Work on Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4 support
Drag-drop support for databinding
Run in medium trust
Move to ADO.NET Data Services as the underlying protocol
First part of 2010: RTW
Polish beta release (bugs, perf, stress, security, localization, …)
Small design changes / tweaks
Keep up with changes in other products
A note on Platforms and tools
In each CTP, we will be keeping up with corresponding public Silverlight drops as and when they are scheduled (sorry, I don’t have that schedule)
For RTW, we are planning Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4 as the primary story. Support for previous version TBD (depends on feedback about relative importance / cost / options)
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