Microsoft released RIA Services 1.0 for Silverlight 4 and Visual Studio 2010.
Per Microsoft: “Microsoft WCF RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier.“
You can download RIA Service 1.0 here.
Get started with RIA Services by watching some videos, etc. here.
David Hayden