which frameworks(MVVM light, Prism, MEF,..) should i use for my Financial Silverlight application?

Question

first of all, I am new to silverlight(play around with it for one month) and this is my first job. However, i am willing to learn anything which can let me advance my silverlight knowledge.

Currently, I need to implement a big Silverlight project about Financial(kind of similar to Microsoft Accounting). It will have a lot of tables from database.

Because it is too big, scalability and maintain are pretty important.

Can anyone here tell me which silverlight framework i should learn and use (MEF, Prism, .....)? Time is also a constraint so i don't think i can learn all. Plz advise me the best one.

thank you

Answer 1

if I can give you one big tip, which I wish I had before starting a rather big application; do not use ria services if you have more then 2-3 level relations between your database tables if you want to really be in control of your data manipulation.

mvvm can be quite chaotic at first sight but once you get the hang of it it's really transparent and very maintainable.

good luck :)