At the MIX conference this week, Scott Guthrie announced a Release Candidate of WCF RIA Services, along with a new RIA Services Toolkit, both available here.
Saurabh Pant has a great blog post about deploying RIA Services to your server. This post specifically targets .NET 4, Silverlight 4, and Visual Studio 2010, and even announces some hosting companies that now provide RIA Services RC support.
While I won't rehash all of the deployment details, I wanted to draw attention to Azure deployments. Saurabh points out that RIA Services RC only supports .NET 4. Currently, Azure only supports .NET 3.5. This means the “server” side of your RIA Services app cannot yet be used in Azure (although you can develop it locally and run with the Development Fabric).
I haven’t heard or seen any official statement about .NET 4 support on Azure, but my gut feeling (read: educated guess) is that we’ll see an Azure Virtual Machine upgrade at the same time .NET 4 is RTM, currently slated for April 12. Hopefully this will all be cleared up in the next month.
If you need to deploy a RIA Services application to Azure today, continue working with the RIA Services Beta which was announced at PDC in November. The Beta works with both .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.
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