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In March of this year SP1 of WCF RIA Services was released together with SP1 of Visual Studio 2010. Soon this was followed by a new version of the WCF RIA Services Toolkit. Microsoft has changed a few things in SP1 which makes it possible for you to implement you own code generation classes that can manipulate the client code generation of RIA Services entities, contexts, … In my opinion this is a great new feature which is very powerful when you are building your own Silverlight framework. So in this article I will describe how the code generation in RIA services SP1 works and I will demonstrate some scenarios and ideas were customizing the generated code is a nice technique to extend your own framework.

• WCF RIA Services code generation
• Setup of demo application
• Installation of Toolkit
• T4 Code generation classes
• Adding interfaces to the generated entities
• Adding attributes to the generated entities
• Using derived data annotation attributes
• Adding XML comments to the generated entities
• Using derived classes for entities, domain contexts and the web context
• Implementing your own logic in the derived classes

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