# .NET RIA Services, IronRuby alternatives? **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [July 12, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-ria-services-ironruby-alternatives/171975 "2009-07-12T20:22:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dotty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dotty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dotty)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-ria-services-ironruby-alternatives/171975/1 "2009-07-12T20:22:44Z")
I have just been checking out the docs from the .NET RIA Services July 2009 preview: [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=76bb3a07-3846-4564-b0c3-27972bcaabce&displaylang=en](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=76bb3a07-3846-4564-b0c3-27972bcaabce&displaylang=en) It seems pretty complicated, and there is a lot of magic (shared files, attributes, generated code - with more attributes in it) Since dynamic Silverlight already exists, I was wondering if anyone has had success using a simpler approach using that? Specifically, I am looking to enable simple CRUD against a db backend using Silverlight. I would imagine that using REST/Sinatra would result in a much much simpler, but arguably equally effective solution for Silverlight apps. (.NET RIA Services does seem to have some nice (but not intuitive) stuff for validations though) Anyone already trying .NET RIA Services and/or Dynamic Silverlight? Thanks